Photolysis initiated

Photolysis initiates the reaction by generating sulfur atoms... 

In the case of the disilanyldiazoacetate 303, photolysis initially gives the carbene 304 that rearranges to the silaacrylate 305165, which then isomerizes to the bissilylketene 306 (equation 77). The trapping reaction with alcohols gives the products 307 and 308. The latter is obviously formed via ion pair intermediates like 309. The UV and IR spectra of irradiated matrices at 10 K have been measured. The band at 1670 cm-1 is tentatively assigned to the vc=o of 305 Xmax is at 288 nm. 

It seems unlikely then that carbonyl (ketone and aldehyde) formed by thermal breakdown of hydroperoxides are important sensitisers for photo-oxidation of LDPE in normally processed polymers. The evidence is consistent with the theory that allylic hydrx>perx>xlde derived from vlnylidene is the importeuit photo-initiator initially present under these conditions. Vlnylidene disappears as a concomitant of hydroperx>xide photolysis, initiating photo-oxidation in a manner analogous to its function in thermal oxidation. 

In the middle atmosphere, molecular nitrogen is particularly stable since it cannot be photodissociated below the mesopause. On the other hand, the photodissociation of molecular oxygen can occur at altitudes as low as 20 km. Where transport processes can replace the photodissociated molecules, their abundances remain constant, but as photodissociation rates increase at higher altitudes, mixing ratios begin to decline. Oxygen photolysis initiates a series of reactions which determine the chemistry of the oxygen atmosphere these will be the subject of the next section. 

It is somewhat difficult to compare these predictions with experimental results since no really systematic experimental study has yet been published. This is due in part to difficulties in preparing mixtures of H2 and Fa of any desired composition and pressure and also to experimental limitations in the sufficiently rapid initiation of the pumping reaction. However, as far as the experimental information goes, it can be concluded that the efficiency is considerably lower than expected. For instance, in flash photolysis-initiated HF lasers a chemical efficiency of below 1% is usually found 101>. Two suggestions may be made to explain this discrepancy. One may look at it as either a chemical rate problem or a laser problem. In the first case, some unknown rate process must be assumed to reduce the build-up of excited HF. Since the formation and deactivation rates are known with some accuracy, this could only be excessive recombination or an unusually high rate of the reverse reaction 102>. Alternatively, parasitic oscillations or superradiance have been claimed to cause radiation losses in off-axis... 

A comparison of the spectral qualities of the test compounds and those of aqueous CRM-1 Indicates that the Indoles underwent sensitized photolysis In the aqueous CRM-1 matrix. The matrix absorbed significantly at wavelengths below 320 nm, which Is the Important region for direct photolysis of the Indoles studied. Since direct light absorption was significantly diminished by the matrix while observed photolysis rates were enhanced, the Indoles probably underwent sensitized photolysis Initiated by other components In the matrix. Such a process could account for the Increased photolysis rates for Indoles In the matrix. 

Deoxycytidinyl)methyl radical (98) was produced from the respective phenyl sulfide (99) via 254 nm photolysis. Initial studies in dinucleotides revealed that 98 adds to the C8-position of dG to form intrastrand cross-linked products (Scheme 41). These products were also observed when 98 was generated from 99 in chemically synthesized oligonucleotides, and when DNA was subjected to y-radiolysis. In DNA, 100 is favored over 101 and is even detected, albeit in almost 20-fold lower yield when 98 is generated under aerobic conditions. 

Many optical studies have employed a quasi-static cell, through which the photolytic precursor of one of the reagents and the stable molecular reagent are slowly flowed. The reaction is then initiated by laser photolysis of the precursor, and the products are detected a short time after the photolysis event. To avoid collisional relaxation of the internal degrees of freedom of the product, the products must be detected in a shorter time when compared to the time between gas-kinetic collisions, that depends inversely upon the total pressure in the cell. In some cases, for example in case of the stable NO product from the H + NO2 reaction discussed in section B2.3.3.2. the products are not removed by collisions with the walls and may have long residence times in the apparatus. Study of such reactions are better carried out with pulsed introduction of the reagents into the cell or under crossed-beam conditions. 

One of the most important teclmiques for the study of gas-phase reactions is flash photolysis [8, ]. A reaction is initiated by absorption of an intense light pulse, originally generated from flash lamps (duration a=lp.s). Nowadays these have frequently been replaced by pulsed laser sources, with the shortest pulses of the order of a few femtoseconds [22, 64]. 

Figure B2.5.8. Schematic representation of laser-flash photolysis using the pump-probe technique. The beam splitter BS splits the pulse coming from the laser into a pump and a probe pulse. The pump pulse initiates a reaction in the sample, while the probe beam is diverted by several mirrors M tluough a variable delay line.

The conmron flash-lamp photolysis and often also laser-flash photolysis are based on photochemical processes that are initiated by the absorption of a photon, hv. The intensity of laser pulses can reach GW cm or even TW cm, where multiphoton processes become important. Figure B2.5.13 simnnarizes the different mechanisms of multiphoton excitation [75, 76, 112], The direct multiphoton absorption of mechanism (i) requires an odd number of photons to reach an excited atomic or molecular level in the case of strict electric dipole and parity selection rules [117],... 

Figure C2.3.9. Product distribution of dissymmetrical ketone photolysis as influenced by cefyltrimethylammonium chloride (CTAC) micelles. The initial ketone, A(CO)B is photolysed to lose the carbonyl group and to produce tliree products, AA, AB and BB. These data are for benzyl (A) 4-methylbenzyl (B) ketone. Product AA is 1,2-diphenylethane, product BB is 1,2-ditolylethane and product AB is l-phenyl-2-tolyl-ethane. At low CTAC concentration, in the absence of micelles, a random distribution of products is obtained. In the presence of micelles, however, the AB product is heavily favoured. Adapted with pennission from 1571.

Dry-Film Resists Based on Radical Photopolymerization. Photoinitiated polymerization (PIP) is widely practiced ia bulk systems, but special measures must be taken to apply the chemistry ia Hthographic appHcations. The attractive aspect of PIP is that each initiator species produced by photolysis launches a cascade of chemical events, effectively forming multiple chemical bonds for each photon absorbed. The gain that results constitutes a form of "chemical amplification" analogous to that observed ia silver hahde photography, and illustrates a path for achieving very high photosensitivities. 

Fig. 20. Proposed photochemical mechanisms for the generation of acid from sulfonium salt photolysis. Shown ate examples illustrating photon absorption by the onium salt (direct irradiation) as well as electron transfer sensitization, initiated by irradiation of an aromatic hydrocarbon.

Electronic excitation from atom-transfer reactions appears to be relatively uncommon, with most such reactions producing chemiluminescence from vibrationaHy excited ground states (188—191). Examples include reactions of oxygen atoms with carbon disulfide (190), acetylene (191), or methylene (190), all of which produce emission from vibrationaHy excited carbon monoxide. When such reactions are carried out at very low pressure (13 mPa (lO " torr)), energy transfer is diminished, as with molecular beam experiments, so that the distribution of vibrational and rotational energies in the products can be discerned (189). Laser emission at 5 p.m has been obtained from the reaction of methylene and oxygen initiated by flash photolysis of a mixture of SO2, 2 2 6 (1 )-... 

Aqueous Phase. In contrast to photolysis of ozone in moist air, photolysis in the aqueous phase can produce hydrogen peroxide initially because the hydroxyl radicals do not escape the solvent cage in which they are formed (36). 

Photolysis of 1,4-diphenylphthalazine 2-oxide in various solvents gives 1,3-diphenyl-isobenzofuran (52) as the primary product. In the presence of oxygen, deoxygenation to 1,4-diphenylphthalazine and oxidation of the initially formed 1,3-diphenylisobenzofuran (52) to 1,2-dibenzoylbenzene also take place (Scheme 17). 

Photolysis of spiro[fluorene-9,3 -indazole] (384) to the tribenzopentalene (385) has been rationalized in terms of the initial formation of triplet diradical (386) (76JOC2120). The spiroindazole (387) behaves differently and on irradiation in THF is converted into the dimer (388) and the stable iV-ylide (389) (76CB2596). 

Cyclopropenones react with nitrosobenzene by an O-initiated attack at C-1 to produce isoxazolin-5-ones (75TL3283, 78USP4053481), and an isoxazolin-5-one was produced as a by-product in the photolysis of nitroethylene (78AJCU3). Substituted oxazolin-5-ones have... 

Free radicals are molecular fragments having one or more unpaired electrons, usually short-lived (milhseconds) and highly reaclive. They are detectable spectroscopically and some have been isolated. They occur as initiators and intermediates in such basic phenomena as oxidation, combustion, photolysis, and polvmerization. The rate equation of a process in which they are involved is developed on the postulate that each free radical is at equihbrium or its net rate of formation is zero. Several examples of free radical and catalytic mechanisms will be cited, aU possessing nonintegral power law or hyperbohc rate equations. 

The diffusion of H and D atoms in the molecular crystals of hydrogen isotopes was explored with the EPR method. The atoms were generated by y-irradiation of crystals or by photolysis of a dopant. In the H2 crystals the initial concentration of the hydrogen atoms 4x 10 mol/cm is halved during 10 s at 4.2 K as well as at 1.9 K [Miyazaki et al. 1984 Itskovskii et al. 1986]. The bimolecular recombination (with rate constant /ch = 82cm mol s ) is limited by diffusion, where, because of the low concentration of H atoms, each encounter of the recombinating partners is preceded by 10 -10 hops between adjacent sites. 

Mixed aryl selenides have also proven to be excellent ree ents for group transfer reactions.Photolysis of selenides in an inert solvent such as benzene can initiate chain reactions. Substituted radicals can be generated in this manner, from a-selenoe-... 

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