摘要:
Singlet phenylhalocarbenes are shown to react with triplet oxygen and the apparent spin-forbidden oxygenation rates are strongly dependent on substituents, i.e. in the decreasing order of Br>Clmuch greater thanF for halogen and of p-NO2>Hmuch greater thanp-MeO for p-substituents. These results suggest the oxygenation of triplet halocarbene equilibrated with ground-state singlet, resulting in the first estimation of energy difference between the singlet and triplet states. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.