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We note a very interesting manifestation of the strong chelating agent-cation interaction, i.e. the ESR linewidths observed for Chel Na+C10H8" in the presence of excess Ci0H8. We consider two processes which can broaden the ESR lines, anion-neutral molecule electron transfer... 

A group with a more powerful (electron-withdrawing) inductive effect, e.g. NOa, is found to have rather more influence. Electron-withdrawal is intensified when the nitro group is in the o- or p-position, for the interaction of the unshared pair of the amino nitrogen with the delocalised it orbital system of the benzene nucleus is then enhanced. The neutral molecule is thus stabilised even further with respect to the cation, resulting in further weakening as a base. Thus the nitro-anilines are found to have related p a values ... 

From a chemist s viewpoint, the most important act of ionizing radiation (usually X-rays, y-rays or high energy electrons) is electron ejection. Initially the ejected electrons have sufficient energy to eject further electrons on interaction with other molecules, but the electrons ultimately become thermalised and then are able to interact "chemically". We consider first various reaction pathways for these electrons, and then consider the fate of the "hole" centres created by electron ejection. [We refer to electron-gain and electron-loss centres rather than to radical-anions and -cations since, of course, the substrate may comprise ions rather than neutral molecules. 

In the early 1980s, one of the authors of this chapter began to study argon matrix isolation of radical cations235 by applying the radiolytic techniques elaborated by Hamill and Shida. A central factor was the addition of an electron scavenger to the matrix which was expected to increase the yield of radical cations and the selectivity of the method. For practical reasons, X-rays replaced y-rays as a radiolytic source and argon was chosen as a matrix material because of its substantial cross section for interaction with keV photons (which presumably effect resonant core ionization of Ar). Due to the temporal separation of the process of matrix isolation of the neutral molecules and their ionization, it was possible to obtain difference spectra which show exclusively the bands of the radical cations. 

FIGURE 32. Schematic representation of the geometry changes of a hypothetical model of two facing n-systems with HOMOs Ta and n t,. The neutral molecule is represented in the centre. Upon ionization (removal of an electron from the HOMO it ), the antibonding interactions which prevail in n are reduced, and the distance R decreases. As a consequence, the IT. /t overlap and cr increase. Conversely, upon electron ejection from n+ (or on 7T+ - %- excitation), the bonding interaction in 7T+ is diminished, which has the opposite effect on R and cr as described above... 

Such CR bands, which have been observed for many radical cations, usually manifest themselves by intense, broad bands in the visible or NIR part of the spectrum. The reason for the broadness is that, upon excitation of an electron from 7T+ to 7r, the antibonding interaction is greatly enhanced. Consequently, the equilibrium distance of the 7r-systems in the excited state is significantly larger than in the ground state of the radical cation (or that of the neutral molecule) which results in a Franck-Condon envelope for the EA band which may be even broader than that for the corresponding PE band. 

When a neutral molecule interacts with an electron of high kinetic energy, the positive radical ion is generated by El. If the electrons have less energy than the IE of the respective neutral, El is prohibited. As the electrons approach thermal energy, EC can occur instead. Under EC conditions, there are three different mechanisms of ion formation [65,75-77]... 

One-electron oxidation of l,6-diazabicyclo[4.4.4]tetradecane proceeds at a remarkably low rate. The cation-radical obtained contains a three-electron o bond between the two nitrogen atoms (Alder and Sessions 1979). In this case, the three-electron bond links the two nitrogens that are disjoined in the initial neutral molecule, at the expense of one electron from the lone electron pair of the first nitrogen and the two electrons of the second nitrogen, which lasts as if it is unchangeable. The authors named such a phenomenon as strong inward pyramidalization of the nitrogens with remarkable flexibility for the N—N interaction. This interaction results in 2a-la bond formation (Scheme 3.21). 

The cation-radical version of diene synthesis, in which the diene is in a strongly electron-deficient state, is characterized by an unusual high endoselectivity. In this case, endoselectivity is sig-nihcantly higher than that of thermal or photochemical initiation of a neutral molecule (cf. Mlcoch and Steckhan 1987). As follows from the charge diagram depicted in Scheme 7.21, when a cation-radical and neutral molecule approach each other, not only the C(l)-C(6) and C(4)-C(5) interactions are bonding (indeed, these interactions result in cyclization), but C(2)-C(7) and C(3)-C(8) interactions are also bonding. As a result, the endo product is formed. 

Plasma is essenhally an ionized gas, consisting of a mixture of interacting positive ions, electrons, neutral atoms, or molecules in the ground state or any higher state of any form of excitation as well as photons. Since charge... 

The modification of the electronic potentials due to the interaction with the electric field of the laser pulse has another important aspect pertaining to molecules as the nuclear motion can be significantly altered in light-induced potentials. Experimental examples for modifying the course of reactions of neutral molecules after an initial excitation via altering the potential surfaces can be found in Refs 56, 57, where the amount of initial excitation on the molecular potential can be set via Rabi-type oscillations [58]. Nonresonant interaction with an excited vibrational wavepacket can in addition change the population of the vibrational states [59]. Note that this nonresonant Stark control acts on the timescale of the intensity envelope of an ultrashort laser pulse [60]. 

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