Photolability

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An important ramification of the photolability of azo-compounds is that, when using dialkyldiazenes as thermal initiators, care must be taken to ensure that the polymerization mixture is not exposed to excessive light during its preparation. 

Fig. 3.17. Kinetics of conductivity of a zinc oxide film in the process of adsorption of CH2-biradicals at 100 C. The radicals have been produced by means of photol)rsis ketene vapour at pressure P = 0,5 Torr. a - after adsorption of Zn-atoms b - prior (/) and after adsorption of (2) Zn-atoms.

These experiments confirmed the photolability of the carbonyl ligands of 1 and suggested that the initial photoproduct may be the coordinatively unsaturated species [Cp2Ti(CO)]. This compound recombines with CO at a much faster rate than decomposing, thus appearing to show no net reaction upon photolysis. 

The second reaction we will treat here that in many cases proceeds by a homogeneous mechanism is the solid-state polymerization of diacetylenes. The photolability of these compounds has long been known (189), but it was not until the appearance of the pioneering works of Hirshfeld and Schmidt (168) and of Wegner (190) that some real understanding of the process was introduced. This led to an explosive interest in the subject, and more than 200 diacetylene derivatives have now been studied, by a wide variety of techniques (191). 

The iodoalkane (1 mmol) and an excess of the heteroarene (5-15 mmol), Na2S203 (0.16 g), 2-methyloxirane (0.3 g), and TBA-Br (32 mg, 0.1 mmol) are added to MeOCMe3 (2 ml) in a Pyrex tube. The mixture is degassed under Ar at 0°C and photol-ysed for 36-48 h with a medium pressure Hanovia lamp. Et20 (10 ml) is added to the mixture and the organic phase is separated, washed well with H20, dried (MgS04), and evaporated to yield the substituted heteroarene. 

I- 2] Cycloadducts have been successively obtained by reaction of MCP with maleic anhydride (116) and a number of related electron-deficient alkenes (137,4, 487) under photol)rtic conditions in the presence of a sensitizer (Table 38, entries 5-8) [132b]. Analogous cycloadditions in mild conditions with high yields have also been performed with electron-donor substituted alkenes, such as vinylene carbonates 483 and 484 and the imidazolinone 485 (entries 2-4) [132]. In the case of the unsymmetrical anhydride 137 (entry 6), an almost equimolar mixture of both the possible regioisomers has been obtained [132b]. In all these cases the reaction has also been proposed to occur via diradical intermediates formed from the reaction of 1 with the alkene in its excited triplet state [132]. 

Burhenne J., M. Ludwig, and Spiteller M. (1997). Photol)dic degradation of fluoroquinolone carboxylic acids in aqueous solution. Part II Isolation and structural elucidation of polar photometabolites. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 4 61-67. 

Energy Chain. Schumacher (71) has presented a detailed mechanism based on an energy chain to explain quantum yield of greater than two. This chain assumes that reactions using vibrationally excited oxygen molecules are involved. McGrath and Norrish (54) have recently shown that vibrationally excited Cb S,-) is formed in the flash photol-... 

Electrophilic radical cyclizations of alkenyl aminium cation radicals have shown synthetic utility. Hofmann-Loffler-Freytag reactions do not compete with 5-exo cyclizations (75BSF1429). The homolytic cyclization of Af-chloroalkenylamines under acidic or Lewis acidic conditions has been studied primarily by Surzur and Stella, and the chemistry of these precursors for electrophilic aminyl radical generation has been reviewed [83AG(E)337]. Radical chain reactions can be initiated by heat, UV photol-... 

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