Controlling the reactive state through cation binding: photochemistry of enones within zeolites
作者:Sundararajan Uppili、Shinsuke Takagi、R.B Sunoj、P Lakshminarasimhan、J Chandrasekhar、V Ramamurthy
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4039(01)00100-9
日期:2001.3
The nature of the lowest triplet state of enones is altered by the cations present within Y zeolites. Alkali metal ions, such as Li+, are predicted to interact with the carbonyl unit of enones in a collinear fashion and significantly lower both the p-type n and pi -2 orbitals. Excited state energies, estimated at the CIS(D)/6-31+G* level, show that the lowest triplet is n-pi* in character for the enones, but switch to pi-pi* on coordination with Li+. Observed product distribution within zeolite is consistent with this theoretical prediction. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.