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Light Absorption by Chemical Species Molar Extinction Coefficients Illustrative Example 15.1 Determining Decadic Molar Extinction Coefficients of Organic Pollutants Chemical Structure and Light Absorption The Fate of Excited Chemical Species Quantum Yields 

3 Light Absorption by Organic Chemicals in Natural Waters 

Illustrative Example 15.2 Using the Screening Factor S(X ) to Estimate the Total Specific Light Absorption Rate ofPNAP in the Epilimnion of 

First-Order Rate Constant for Quantification of Direct Photolysis Illustrative Example 15.3 Estimating the Photolysis Half-Life of a Weak Organic Acid in the Well-Mixed Epilimnion of a Lake Determination of Quantum Yields and Chemical Actinometry Advanced 

5 Effects of Solid Sorbents (Particles, Soil Surfaces) on Direct Photolysis 

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Figure Bl.16.2. X-band TREPR spectra obtained at 0.1 ps after 308 mn photolysis of a fliiorinated peroxide dimer in Freon 113 at room temperature. Part A is the A/E RPM spectrum obtained upon direct photolysis part B is the E/A RPM spectrum obtained upon triplet sensitization of this reaction using benzophenone.

The Cyclooctene Isomerization. A reaction that attracted some attention in recent years is the cis-trans isomerization of cyclooctene [84]. The cis isomer is much less strained than the trans, but the latter is readily fonned upon direct photolysis and also upon photosensitization. In this case, two enantiomeric trans isomers are formed. The appropriate loop is a variation of that shown in Figure 14, as shown in Figure 34. This is a phase inverting i -type loop, that... 

Direct photochemical excitation of unconjugated alkenes requires light with A < 230 nm. There have been relatively few studies of direct photolysis of alkenes in solution because of the experimental difficulties imposed by this wavelength restriction. A study of Z- and -2-butene diluted with neopentane demonstrated that Z E isomerization was competitive with the photochemically allowed [2tc + 2n] cycloaddition that occurs in pure liquid alkene. The cycloaddition reaction is completely stereospecific for each isomer, which requires that the excited intermediates involved in cycloaddition must retain a geometry which is characteristic of the reactant isomer. As the ratio of neopentane to butene is increased, the amount of cycloaddition decreases relative to that of Z E isomerization. This effect presumably is the result of the veiy short lifetime of the intermediate responsible for cycloaddition. When the alkene is diluted by inert hydrocarbon, the rate of encounter with a second alkene molecule is reduced, and the unimolecular isomerization becomes the dominant reaction. 

The photolysis of benzobarrelene. A, has been studied in considerable detail. Direct photolysis gives C, but when acetone is used as a photosensitizer, the di-rc-methane rearrangement product B is formed. 

Methylfuran, irradiated in the presence of mercury vapor, gave carbon monoxide and a fraction containing 1,3-butadiene and 3-methylcyclopropene (45 55) (67JA1758). Subsequently, it was found that in both sensitized and direct photolysis of 2-methylfuran a more complex mixture of products was obtained, where 3-methylfuran was present (Scheme 5) (68JA2720 70JPC574). 3-Methylfuran was the only product when 2-methylfuran was irradiated in diethyl ether (68JA2720). 

Persulfate (41) absorbs only weakly in the UV (e ca 25 M 1 cm 1 at 250 nm).242 Nonetheless, direct photolysis of persulfate ion has been used as a means of generating sulfate radical anion in laboratory studies.242 243... 

Very little information exists in the literature on the transformation and degradation of methyl parathion in air. An early study indicated that direct photolysis of methyl parathion may occur however, the products of this photolysis were not determined (Baker and Applegate 1974). A later study found a transformation product of methyl parathion, methyl paraoxon, in air samples taken from areas where methyl parathion had been applied. Formation of methyl paraoxon was attributed to the vapor phase oxidation of methyl parathion (Seiber et al. 1989). Recent monitoring studies in California have also found both methyl parathion and methyl paraoxon (Baker et al. 1996). 

Direct photolysis does not appear to be a significant transformation process in soils. Only 5-17% of the methyl parathion concentration was lost over 50-60 days (half-life equal to 330 days) during a photolysis study (Baker and Applegate 1970). 

The a- and [3-isomers of endosulfan undergo photolysis in laboratory tests after irradiation in polar solvents and upon exposure to sunlight on plant leaves. The a-isomer also undergoes isomerization to the P-isomer, which is relatively more stable (Dureja and Mukerjee 1982). A photolytic half-life of about 7 days was reported for endosulfan by EPA (1982c). The primary photolysis product is endosulfan diol, which is subsequently photodegraded to endosulfan a-hydroxyether. Endosulfan sulfate is stable to direct photolysis at light wavelengths of >300 nm however, the compound reacts with hydroxy radicals, with an estimated atmospheric half-life of 1.23 hours (HSDB 1999). 

Bentrude et al. [20] reported the first photo-Arbuzov rearrangement of arylethylphosphites (Scheme 4). The direct photolysis of arylethylphosphites... 

Atrazine is successively transformed to 2,4,6-trihydroxy-l,3,5-triazine (Pelizzetti et al. 1990) by dealkylation of the alkylamine side chains and hydrolytic displacement of the ring chlorine and amino groups (Figure 1.3). A comparison has been made between direct photolysis and nitrate-mediated hydroxyl radical reactions (Torrents et al. 1997) the rates of the latter were much greater under the conditions of this experiment, and the major difference in the products was the absence of ring hydroxylation with loss of chloride. 

Carey JH, ME Cox (1981) Photodegradation of the lampricide 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM). 1. Pathway of the direct photolysis in solution. J Great Lakes Res 7 234-241. 

Swanson MB, WA Ivancic, AM Saxena, JD Allton, GKO Brian, T Suzuki, H Nishizawa, M Nokata (1995) Direct photolysis of fenpyroximate in a buffered aqueous solution. J Agric Food Chem 43 513-518. 

With respect to using methyl viologen as electron relay, it might be of interest to note tlmt MV " can be oxidized by positive holes produced in illuminated colloidal semiconductors such as Ti02 Two oxidation products of MV are 1, 2 -di-hydro-l,r-dimethyl-2 -oxo-4,4 -bipyridylium chloride and 3,4-dihydro-l,r-dime-thyl-3-oxo-4,4 -bipyridylium chloride, which can readily be detected by their strong fluorescences at 516 nm and 528 nm, respectively. These products are also produced in the direct photolysis of MV " solutions and in the reaction of MV "" with OH radicals in homogeneous solution... 

The results of this study are presented in Table 4.7. As can be seen from the data in Table 4.7, decarbonylation with hydrogen or deuterium transfer to the resulting radical is a relatively efficient process. The failure to observe this reaction using acetone or acetophenone as photosensitizer would suggest a singlet pathway for the direct photolysis of the aldehyde. In agreement, decarbonylation could not be quenched by naphthalene, piperylene, or 1,3-cyclohexadiene when the aldehyde was excited directly. The reaction could, however, be somewhat quenched by the addition of tri-n-butylstannane. The products in this case were... 

Acetone sensitization provided semibullvalene (38) while direct photolysis gave cyclooctatetraene (39). Several structural representations of semibullvalene are shown below ... 

The direct photolysis of barrelene to cyclooctatetraene can be pictured as follows ... 

In sensitization studies, the 7 state of anthrabarrelene (45) proved to be totally unreactive. However, direct photolysis of 2,3-anthrabarrelene afforded 2,3-anthrasemibullvalene via vinyl-vinyl bridging with a quantum efficiency of 0.25 ... 

The previous sections have shown that cis-trans isomerization of stilbene can take place via the lowest triplet state of stilbene. The question to be considered now is whether the isomerization upon direct photolysis takes place via the singlet state, the triplet state, or a vibrationally excited ground state.a 7 81 50)... 

Any mechanism which involves isoenergetic, radiationless internal conversion from C, P, or T to a high vibrational level of the ground state would be expected to show a large deuterium isotope effect on the rate of internal conversion. In the direct photolysis of perdeuterio and perhydrostilbene, Saltiel<8a) found no isotope effect on the photostationary state or upon the quantum yields of cis-to-trans and trans-to-cis conversion. 

A recently popular mechanism involves the intersystem crossing of the cis- or trons-stilbene singlet state, produced upon direct photolysis, to its corresponding triplet states, which would then undergo the type of reactions given in Eqs. (9.8M9.10) and (9.17M9.19) ... 

In addition to (8) and (9), several other noncyclobutane dimers, such as (10) (50% yield), were isolated. Other reports<5-7) have identified dimers (11) and (12) as products of the direct photolysis of butadiene. It appears that the... 

As with 2-cyclopentenone, the ratio (70) (71) varies with the molar concentration of the enone, the head-to-head dimer (71) becoming increasingly important at higher concentrations/133 This reaction is efficiently sensitized by acetophenone, benzophenone, thioxanthone, and naphthalene. The same enone concentration effect was observed in the sensitized photo-dimerization as in the direct photolysis. Similarly, quenching of the dimerization by piperylene was not accompanied by a change in dimer ratio. Systematic... 

Dimers (73) and (74) were formed in approximately equal amounts in all cases, although, as in the cases of 2-cyclopentenone and 2-cyclohexenone, the relative amount of (72) (either cis-syn-cis or cis-anti-cis) was found to vary substantially with solvent polarity. As in 2-cyclopentenone, this increase in the rate of head-to-head dimerization was attributed to stabilization of the increase in dipole moment in going to the transition state leading to (72) in polar solvents. It is thought that the solvent effect in this case is not associated with the state of aggregation since a plot of Stem-Volmer plot and complete quenching with 0.2 M piperylene indicate that the reaction proceeds mainly from the triplet manifold. However, the rates of formation of head-to-head and head-to-tail dimers do not show the same relationship when sensitized by benzophenone as in the direct photolysis. This effect, when combined with different intercepts for head-to-head and head-to-tail dimerizations quenched by piperylene in the Stem-Volmer plot, indicates that two distinct excited triplet states are involved with differing efficiencies of population. The nature of these two triplets has not been disclosed. 

The direct photolysis of (6) was found to involve no triplet intermediates, since the same product distribution was obtained in the presence of the triplet quencher piperylene as in its absence. 

In the presence of benzophenone, (8) was again the major product (>95°/0) and only trace amounts of the cyclohexane products were produced. These results suggest the intermediacy of a singlet 1,6-hexylene biradical in the direct photolysis and a longer lived triplet 1,6-diradical in the sensitized photolysis. In the triplet biradical more time is available for 1,6-hydrogen transfer to occur prior to spin inversion and hence more olefin (8) is produced. Similar results were reported for the direct and photosensitized photolysis of the 3,8-dimethyl derivative of (7). 

The yield of trans product (18) is decreased by the presence of a radical scavenger such as 1,1-diphenylethylene and increased by dilution of the reactants with methylene chloride or butane, indicating this product to result from the triplet carbene. A heavy-atom effect on the carbene intermediate was observed by photolysis of a-methylmercuridiazoacetonitrile. With c/s-2-butene as the trapping agent either direct photolysis or triplet benzophenone-sensitized decomposition results in formation of cyclopropanes (19) and (20) in a 1 1 ratio ... 

Strong evidence in favor of mechanism B was obtained when it was discovered that singlet oxygen produced chemically by the reaction of hydrogen peroxide and sodium hydrochlorite or from gaseous oxygen excited by an electrodeless discharge yields the same products as the direct photolysis/85-8 ... 

The quantum yield for isomerization in the direct photolysis was found to be d> = 0.94. The reaction could also be sensitized with acetophenone ( = 1.02) and quenched with piperylene, indicating a reactive triplet species with a rate constant kr of 3 x 10l°sec-1. With a 3-(p-methoxyphenyl) derivative two products were obtained<81) ... 

Upon low conversion direct photolysis the cis isomer (10) gave only the cis isomer (12) and the trans isomer (11) gave only the trans isomer (13). The triplet sensitized reaction of (10) and (11) gave rise only to cis-trans isomerization. Thus the di-ir-methane photorearrangement from the triplet state cannot compete with triplet state deactivation via cis-trans isomerization (Zimmerman has termed this the free rotor effect). Several other examples of regio-specilicity and stereospecificity in di-w-methane photoreactions are as followsa8 a3) ... 

An interesting gas-phase study of the photolysis of ftmy-l-phenyl-2-butene has been published by Comtet.(39,40) He has found that (a) it was not possible to quench the formation of the cyclopropane product under conditions that reduced the fluorescence quantum yield, (b) sensitization by acetophenone only gave cis-trans isomerization, and (c) the quantum yield of cyclopropane formation in the direct photolysis decreases as n-butane is added to the reaction mixture. Comtet suggests that the data are consistent with a reaction from the second triplet state. 

The hydrogen-labeled benzobarrelene indicates that the formation of benzo-cyclooctatetraene from the direct photolysis takes place predominantly via benzovinyl bridging<44) j... 

While direct photolysis of (46) gave (48), the sensitized photolysis of (46) with acetophenone gave only the cyclopropane product (>93%). These authors favor a stepwise oxa-di-w-methane reaction mechanism (8.69) inasmuch as a concerted reaction should produce the product without a change in multiplicity. That is, the product would have to be formed in the triplet state and not enough energy is available for the product to be formed in an excited state ... 

The direct photolysis of cis- or ftmr-stilbene in solution gives rise to photo-isomerization. In addition, dihydrophenanthrene is formed from the cis isomer ... 

If we know the extinction coefficients for the two isomers at the wavelength of photolysis (3130), it should be possible to calculate the pss for the direct photolysis from... 

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