Intramolecular photoinduced oxidative

Intramolecular photoinduced oxidative addition reactions can also occur. For example, when the platinum(0) complex Pt(C2H4)(PPh3)2 is photolyzed at 280 nm, the product is a cyclometalated platinum(II) complex formed by intramolecular oxidative addition of the ortho carbon-hydrogen bond, followed by ethylene insertion into the intmnediate platinum(II) hydride ... 

Hynninen and coworkers <99JCS(PT1)2403> used a similar approach to prepare phytochlorin-C6o diad 38 (Scheme 11). The protocol employed the pyrolysis of the natural chlorophyll a molecule 35, followed by transesterification and demetallation to furnish derivative 36. Subsequent oxidation of 36 with OsCU and NaI04 has allowed the synthesis of the formyl derivative 37, which was further used as precursor of the azomethinic ylide intermediate in the 1,3-DC reaction with Cm leading to the formation of diad 38. Photochemical studies revealed that this diad underwent a fast intramolecular photoinduced electron transfer in polar solvents such a benzonitrile <99JACS9378>. 

Enhancement of fluorescence due to the complexation of metal ions with fluoroionophores has been used as a well-precedented technique to analyze for the presence of metal ions [189-191], A number of studies have reported chelating fluorophores whose emission spectra change upon the addition of metal ions [192-198]. One remarkable result of this emission intensity enhancement is shown in Scheme 23, where the chelation of zinc chloride to 9,10-bis(((2-(dimethylamino)ethyl)methylamino)methyl)anthracene drastically enhances the observed fluorescence by a factor greater than 1000-fold [199], In the absence of Zn2+, the singlet excited state of anthracene moiety is strongly quenched by intramolecular photoinduced electron transfer from the amine to the anthracene moiety. The complex formation of Zn2+ with the amine moiety may result in the largely positive shift of the one-electron oxidation potential. Thus, intramolecular photoinduced electron transfer is strongly suppressed by the complexation of the amine moiety with Zn2+,... 

The PIA spectrum of OPV1 Cgo in ODCB shows the absorption of the fullerene triplet state (Fig. 1.31a) and no significant quenching of the fullerene emission is observed (Fig. 1.26a). Both observations are consistent with the absence of an intramolecular photoinduced electron transfer in OPVI-Cgo, which can be rationalised by the high oxidation potential of the OPV1 moiety. 

Huang P, Magnuson A, Lomoth R, et al. Photoinduced oxidation of a dinuclear Mn2(II,II) complex to the Mn2(III,IV) state by inner and intramolecular electron transfer to Ru(III) tris-bipyridine. J Inorg Biochem 2002 91 159-72. 

Figure 2. Thermodynamic cycles for evaluating the free energy changes AG°et associated with the intramolecular photoinduced electron transfer processes in system 13 in its oxidized (a) and reduced (b) form. The quantity, the spectroscopic energy, is obtained from the emission spectrum the E values, electrode potentials associated with the given redox change, can be determined through voltammetry experiments. The Coulombic term (e /er) has been considered negligible under the present circumstances.

Although the oxidation potentials of carboxylates are relatively high compared to other electron donor groups (e.g., acetate Eqx. = 1-54 V in MeCN, 2.65 V in HjO vs. SCE), the decarboxylative cyclization proceeds very efficiently and many functional groups are tolerated. As the key step in the reaction, rapid intramolecular photoinduced electron transfer proceeds via the jt,7t state or the higher excited n,Jt triplet state in the nanosecond time regime. ... 

Figure 21. Photoinduced electron transfer in the synthetic Ru-phenol-Mn triads. (a) from (185) and (b) from (186,187). In both cases, the Ru(II) is oxidized by photoinduced electron transfer to an extraneous electron acceptor e.g., [Co(NH3)5C1]2+ and the electron is recaptured from the tyrosyl moiety that oxidizes a Mn ion in a bimolecular reaction (left) or intramolecularly as shown on the right-hand side.

Irradiation of 1-methyl-2-nitrocyclohexene 200 in benzene in the presence of methyl acrylate showed a dual pathway to give both isoxazoline 201 (54%) and the C-nitroso dimer 202 (22%)118 (equation 96). The isoxazoline 201 arose from an excited-state intramolecular cyclization and scission to give a nitrile N-oxide which is trapped by the acrylate. Concurrently, the photoinduced nitro-nitrite inversion also occurs competitively to give the C-nitroso compound which is isolated as the dimer 202. 

Highly efficient and stereoselective addition of tertiary amines to electron-deficient alkenes is used by Pete et al. for the synthesis of necine bases [26,27], The photoinduced electron transfer of tertiary amines like Af-methylpyrrolidine to aromatic ketone sensitizers yield regiospecifically only one of the possible radical species which then adds diastereospecifically to (5I )-5-menthyloxy-2-(5//)-furanone as an electron-poor alkene. For the synthesis of pyrrazolidine alkaloids in approximately 30% overall yield, the group uses a second PET step for the oxidative demethylation of the pyrrolidine. The resulting secondary amine react spontaneously to the lactam by intramolecular aminolysis of the lactone (Scheme 20) [26,27]. 

Photoinduced intramolecular electron transfer in the donor-acceptor complex 87 (R = H) generates transient charge-separated open-shell species with the remarkably long lifetime of about 75 ps [89]. Dyads that contain Tt-extended tetrathiafulvalene units also form stable cationic species upon oxidation [90]. The dumbbell shaped triad 91 [91-93] (Scheme 4.13) was obtained by carrying out the reaction with the in situ generated bis-diene at room temperature, in the dark and in o-dichlorobenzene as a solvent in 50% yield. The product is thermally unstable and easily undergoes a retro-Diels-Alder reaction [91]. 

The intramolecular mechanism, illustrated on the left-hand side of Figure 6.8, is based on four separate operations [52]. (a) Destabilization of the stable translational isomer light excitation of the photoactive unit P (step 1) is followed by the transfer of an electron from the excited state to the Al station, which is encircled by the macrocycle (step 2) with the consequent deactivation of this station such a photoinduced electron-transfer process has to compete with the intrinsic decay of P (step 3). (b) Ring displacement the ring moves from the reduced station Ah to A2 (step 4), a step that has to compete with the back electron-transfer process from Ah (still encircled by the macrocycle) to the oxidized photoactive unit P+ (step 5). This is the most difficult requirement to meet in the intramolecular mechanism, (c) Electronic reset a back electron-transfer process from the free reduced station Ah to P+ (step 6) restores the electron-acceptor power to the Al station, (d) Nuclear reset as a consequence of the electronic reset, back movement of the ring from A2 to Al takes place (step 7). 

The photoamination of aromatic hydrocarbons and arylalkenes by ammonia and primary aliphatic amines occurs via photoinduced electron transfer in the presence of m-dicyanobenzene (Scheme 15) [56-58]. In this photoreaction, secondary amines are less reactive than ammonia and primary amines, and the high concentration of the aminated products retards the photoreaction. This is due to the fact that the oxidation potentials of the aminated products produced by the photoreaction are usually much lower than those of the starting ammonia and primary amines. The secondary amines quench the reactive species much faster than the primary amines. Yasuda extended this photoreaction to intramolecular cyclization reactions [59],... 

More recently, pulse radiolysis started to play a major role in the characterization of photolytically generated (A —D ) radical pairs in a variety of fullerene containing donor-bridge-acceptor dyads (68,69). While the latter evolve from photoinduced intramolecular electron transfer reactions complementary employment of pulse radiolysis allowed to generate the reduced and oxidized entities in separate experiments and to superimpose the features of the two reactive moieties. In this context, it should be noted that conventional methods, such as cyclic voltammetry, due to their unfavorable time resolution, fail to contribute to the radical pair characterization. 

The photoinduced intramolecular electron transfer reactions of some poly-(ethylene glycol)-linked 9-aminoacridine-benzoate electron donor-acceptor systems have been described. Photosensitized oxidation of 5-methyl-2 -deoxy-cytidine using menadione (2-methylnaphthalene-l,4-dione) gives 5,6-dihydroxy-5,6-dihydro-5-methyl-2 -deoxycytidine in what is thought to be an electron... 

The construction of intramolecular molecular system whose photo active molecule linked with conducting molecular wire is an important subject in realization of. molecular electronic or photonic devices. For such objectives, systematization of donor-photosensitizer-acceptor triad molecules into large molecular systems is one of the feasible approaches because the exquisite incorporation of the photosensitizer and a suitable electron donor and/or acceptor into a conducting polymeric chain is useful for various molecular systems based on the photoinduced electron transfer. With this in mind, we synthesized symmetrical donor-acceptor-donor triad molecules which can be polymerized by the normal electrochemical oxidation. By the polymerization, one-dimensional donor-acceptor polymers with porphyrin moieties separated by ordered oligothienyl molecular wire which is considered as a proto-type molecular device was obtained. 

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