Heavy atom effects,

Kaupp, M., Malkina, O.L., Malkin, V.G. and Pyykkd, P. (1998) How do spin-orbit induced heavy-atom effects on NMR chemical shifts function Validation of a simple analogy to spin-spin coupling by DFT calculations on some iodo compounds. Chemistry - A European Journal, 4, 118-126. 

Interestingly, it was possible to probe the spin-forbidden component of the tunneling reaction with internal and external heavy atom effects. Such effects are well known to enhance the rates of intersystem crossing of electronically excited triplets to ground singlet states, where the presence of heavier nuclei increases spin-orbit coupling. Relative rates for the low-temperature rearrangements of 12 to 13 were... 

Frosch(84,133) have explained the external heavy-atom effect in intersystem crossing by postulating that the singlet and triplet states of the solute, which cannot interact directly, couple with the solvent singlet and triplet states, which themselves are strongly coupled through spin-orbit interaction. Thus the transition integral becomes<134)... 

Table 5.10. External Heavy-Atom Effect on Naphthalene 32b),a...

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 ... 

Alternatively, rather than to substitute a heavy atom onto a molecule directly, a solvent containing heavy atoms can be used to promote inter-combinational transitions (external heavy-atom effect). Robinson and... 

The effect of the substitution of a heavy-atom directly onto the nucleus of aromatic compounds (internal heavy-atom effect) on intercombinational radiative and nonradiative processes can be seen by examination of experimental data obtained for naphthalene and its derivatives. The data obtained by Ermolaev and Svitashev<104) and analyzed by Birks(24) to obtain individual rate constants for the various processes are collected in Table 5.9. 

Table 5.9. Internal Heavy-Atom Effect on Naphthalene<24 1 4> ...

Thus it can be seen that the heavy-atom effect, so useful in spectroscopy, can also be an important tool in photochemistry, not only to facilitate the study of a reaction mechanism, but also to control the major reaction product. This general system and other related 2w + lit photoaddition reactions will be considered in more detail in Chapter 10. 

Table 10.9. Heavy-Atom Effect on the Photocycloaddition of Acenaphthylene to Cyclopentadiene

A heavy-atom effect on the photocycloaddition of acenaphthylene to acrylonitrile has also been observed.<68) The effect of heavy atoms in this case is seen as an apparent increase in the quantum yield of product formation in heavy-atom solvents as opposed to cyclohexane (the time to achieve about 42% reaction in cyclohexane is greater than that required to produce the same conversion in dibromoethane by a factor of ten). An increase in the rate of acenaphthylene intersystem crossing due to heavy-atom perturbation was proposed to explain this increase in reaction rate. 

Plummer and Ferree(89) have utilized the photoaddition of 5-bromo-acenaphthylene to cyclopentadiene to compare external and internal heavy-atom effects in the acenaphthylene system ... 

On the other hand, the introduction of halide substituents at the C-2 and C-6 position decreases fluorescence quantum yields and gives a bathochromic shift of emission maxima. For example, bromine at the C-2 and C-6 position in compound 14b deteriorates fluorescence quantum yields from 0.95 (14a) to 0.45 and the emission maximum is red-shifted by 42 nm. Moreover, iodine at the C-2,6 position in compound 14d gives the similar bathochromic shift to bromine (14b, 44 nm) and more dramatic reduction in quantum yields (almost nonfluorescent, photophysical properties were interpreted as the heavy atom effect of halides on a BODIPY core skeleton. The bathochromic shift of BODIPY dyes without dramatic decrease in quantum yield was observed by the introduction of vinyl substituents at the C-2 and C-6 position. The extension of conjugation... 

A third possible channel of S state deexcitation is the S) —> Ti transition -nonradiative intersystem crossing isc. In principle, this process is spin forbidden, however, there are different intra- and intermolecular factors (spin-orbital coupling, heavy atom effect, and some others), which favor this process. With the rates kisc = 107-109 s"1, it can compete with other channels of S) state deactivation. At normal conditions in solutions, the nonradiative deexcitation of the triplet state T , kTm, is predominant over phosphorescence, which is the radiative deactivation of the T state. This transition is also spin-forbidden and its rate, kj, is low. Therefore, normally, phosphorescence is observed at low temperatures or in rigid (polymers, crystals) matrices, and the lifetimes of triplet state xT at such conditions may be quite long, up to a few seconds. Obviously, the phosphorescence spectrum is located at wavelengths longer than the fluorescence spectrum (see the bottom of Fig. 1). 

For the photodiagnostic use of these compounds, a high quantum yield of fluorescence, r, is desirable. The metal complexes of the common first-row transition metals are not suitable, because they show very low 4>f values. On the other hand, porphyrin complexes of d° and d10 elements show appreciable fluorescence, although generally less than that of the metal-free compounds, presumably because of the heavy-atom effect (e.g., TPP ZnTPP, Table 5). The further operation of the heavy-atom effect, which increases the rate of intersystem crossing (/cisc) by... 

The palladium(II) phthalocyanines are satisfactory singlet oxygen generators. Thus, f>A values for tetra-t-butylphthalocyanine ((27), with stated replacement for Mg) are 2H, 0.22 Zn, 0.34 Pd, 0.54, i.e., increasing in line with the heavy atom effect.180 For palladium(II) tetra-t-butylphthalocyanine ((27), Pd instead of Mg) in benzene at 290 K, 4>f= 0.048 and X = 0.49.180 However, palladium(II) 2,3-dihydroxy-9,16,23-tri-t-butylphthalocyanine was synthesized by a mixed condensation (1 9 mix of appropriate dinitriles) as a likely amphiphilic sensitizer, but did not show bioactivity in an enzyme assay, possibly because of aggregation.180... 

Unless otherwise specified, both qy and x refer to the same process, indicated by f for fluorescence and p for phosphorescence. For naphthalene, qy is for fluorescence and T is for phosphorescence. bNote heavy atom effect in phosphorescence. 

Scheme 8 gives species with extended 109 or starbust -type structures, which are strongly luminescent even with the large ligand L = PCy3.85 The diphenylfluorene derivative shows a remarkable heavy atom effect on the intersystem crossing rate.78... 

The biphenyl, naphthalene, pyrene, and triphenylene adducts display intense room-temperature phosphorescence.237 238 These observations indicate the occurrence of a mercury heavy atom effect, which promotes... 

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