Early Laser Flash Photolysis Studies of Carbenes

5 EARLY LASER FLASH PHOTOLYSIS STUDIES OF CARBENES 

By 1980, there was still only one study, that of Closs and Rabinow,[16] that reported the absolute rate constant of a carbene reaction. This was about to change dramatically, as Moss and Turro [12] began their studies of arylhalocar-benes, Schuster s group studied fluorenylidene, [17] and Griller and Scaiano stu- 

In a typical LFP experiment the computer will first activate a transient digitizer (an analog to digital or A/D converter). This device converts the analog signal exiting the photomultiplier tube (PMT) detector into a digital format that 

Observing Invisible Carbenes By Trapping Them with Pyridine 

Diphenyldiazomethane 1, triplet diphenylcarbene 3 and benzhydryl radical 9 all have significant absorption between 300-340 nm. In practical terms the exci- 

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