Rate parameters for the two-step photofragmentation of aromatic endoperoxides in solution
作者:K. Jesse、F. J. Comes
DOI:10.1021/j100156a051
日期:1991.2
The formation of dimethylhomoocoerdianthrone (HOCD) following subpicosecond laser photolysis of its endoperoxide (PO) was studied by laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) in the solvents dichloromethane and toluene. The measured rise time of the LIf signal refers to a time constant of tau-2 = 1.7 +/- 0.5 ps at 22-degrees-C. The study of the characteristic rate constant at different temperatures gives an activation energy of E(a) = 5.5 +/-0.5 kcal/mol and a preexponential factor of A = 10(15.7 +/- 0.3) s-1 in toluene. These parameters are consistent with our earlier model for the two-step photofragmentation of aromatic endoperoxides, which assumes a short-lived 1.6-biradical intermediate crossing an activation barrier. The photolysis study of the newly synthesized endoperoxide of anthrabisbenzothiopyran (ABTPO) reveals that photocycloreversion starting from S3(pi-pi*) proceeds with a time constant of tau-2 = 46 +/- 6 ps in dichloromethane (at 22-degrees-C). In this case the activation parameters amount to E(a) = 5.0 +/- 0.6 kcal/mol and A = 10(14.8 +/- 0.3) s-1. The observed activation barrier on the potential energy surface can be a result from resonance effects in the chromophores of the peroxy biradical. The large A factors reflect the importance of internal degrees of freedom in the transition state.
Photolysis of the endoperoxide of heterocoerdianthrone. A concerted, adiabatic cycloreversion originating from an upper excited singlet state