Naphthalene triplet formation efficiency

Table IV summarizes the pertinent characteristics of some of the naphthyl carbonyl compounds. All of these compounds emit from a it,7T triplet very similar to that of naphthalene. Those that have been studied are resistant to photoreduction in isopropyl alcohol and photocycloaddition with 2-methyl-2-butene25 and isobutylene.17 Significant oxetane formation was, however, observed with the aldehydes, albeit with only moderate efficiency (quantum yield approximately one-tenth that of benzaldehyde).25...

Irradiation of a system consisting of 2-methyl-1,4-dihydroxynaphthalene and benzophenone leads to formation of benzophenone ketyl radical and 2-methyl-naphthosemiquinone, and 1 a,7a-dihydro-1 a-methyl-1,1 -diphenyl-1 H-cyclopropa-[b]naphthalene-2,7-dione derivatives (4) in the presence of Mg(C104)2 give indenonaphthoquinones (5) (Scheme 1), by photoinduced intramolecular electron transfer in almost quantitative yield. In agreement with Rehm-Weller predictions, the rate constants for electron transfer between the triplet states of various substituted naphthoquinones and N,N-dimethylaniline (DMA) in acetonitrile solution were found to be diffusion controlled. " Using this information, it has been shown that the efficiencies of formation of naphthalene " and DMA are unity. 

The formation of the benzyl radical by photolysis of toluene in benzene at 4.2 and 77 K has been investigated as a function of light intensity and shown to be unimolecular and biphotonic, and to occur via the lowest excited triplet state. The gas-phase photodissociation of [2,2]paracyclophane (71) into two molecules of /7-quinodimethane and analogous dissociations of two methyl-substituted derivatives have been shown to be efficient two-photon processes.A hot molecule formed by internal conversion from the initially formed singlet electronic excited state is proposed as an intermediate, a mechanism which is completely different from that of the two-photon dissociation of (71) in low-temperature matrices, which involves a triplet state. The photolyses of [2,2]para-cylcophane and [2,2]paracyclophane-l-ene have also been studied in THF and hexane matrices at 77 K, using detection by both luminescence and absorption spectroscopy. The products from both these compounds in THF matrices included alkyl derivatives of rra/15-stilbene, and in hexane matrices alkylphenan-threnes. Cycloreversion of so-called cyclodimers of naphthalene derivatives with benzene or furan, e.g. (72), occurs efficiently upon UV irradiation. ... 

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