Photolysis with water

Technology Description Hydrolysis is the process of breaking a bond in a molecule (which is ordinarily not water-soluble) so that it will go into ionic solution with water. Hydrolysis can be achieved by the addition of chemicals (e.g., acid hydrolysis), by irradiation (e.g., photolysis) or by biological action (e.g., enzymatic bond cleavage). The cloven molecule can then be further treated by other means to reduce toxicity. 

Wolfe NL, RG Zepp, DF Paris (1978) Carbaryl, propham and chloropropham a comparison of the rates of hydrolysis and photolysis with the rates of biolysis. Water Res 12 565-571. 

Investigation of direct conversion of methane to transportation fiiels has been an ongoing effort at PETC for over 10 years. One of our current areas of research is the conversion of methane to methanol, under mild conditions, using li t, water, and a semiconductor photocatalyst. Research in our laboratory is directed toward ad ting the chemistry developed for photolysis of water to that of methane conversion. The reaction sequence of interest uses visible light, a doped tungsten oxide photocatalyst and an electron transfer molecule to produce a hydroxyl i cal. Hydroxyl t cal can then react with a methane molecule to produce a methyl radical. In the preferred reaction pathway, the methyl radical then reacts with an additional wata- molecule to produce methanol and hydrogen. 

Undergoes photolysis in water rapidly. The compound is stable to photolysis in soil and is relatively persistent in soil, with a field half-life (ti/2) of 121 days in sandy soil and fi/2 of 302 days in clay soil. 

Scheme 3.2 Photolysis of 2-fluorenyl azide to produce singlet 2-fluorenylnitrene that then reacts with water to form a singlet 2-fluorenylnitrenium ion. See text for more details. (Reprinted in part with permission from reference [25]. Copyright (2004) American Chemical Society.)...

Photochemical fragmentation 165 166+167 is also feasible. Isopropyl phosphate and isopropyl methyl phosphate are expectedly found after reaction of the photolysis solution with water or methanol. It would appear that 166 (and possibly also 167) can arise directly from 164 and not only by photochemical cycloreversion of 165 since 166 is formed together with 165 even at wavelengths in the range where 165 is known to be stable. 

Tropospheric chemistry is strongly dependent on the concentration of the hydroxyl radical (OH), which reacts very quickly with most trace gases in the atmosphere. Owing to its short boundary layer lifetime ( 1 s), atmospheric concentrations of OH are highly variable and respond rapidly to changes in concentrations of sources and sinks. Photolysis of ozone, followed by reaction of the resulting excited state oxygen atom with water vapour, is the primary source of the OH radical in the clean troposphere ... 

Preparative Photolysis. The preparative photolysis of an aqueous solution (pH=8.5) of AETSAPPE (2.5 M) was conducted in a 1-inch diameter quartz test tube in a Rayonet Reactor (Southern New England Radiation Co.) fitted with 254 nm lamps. Within two hours the solution gelled and the reaction was terminated. Upon acidification the solution cleared, and the product could be re-precipitated by addition of base. This indicates loss of the thiosulfate functionality. The product was dissolved in dilute HC1, precipitated with acetone, and filtered. This process was repeated three times, and the final precipitate was washed with water. The product (20 to 30 mg) was dried in vacuo for 24 hours and stored in a dessicator until use. Comparison of the13 C NMR spectrum of the product with the starting AETSAPPE 13C NMR spectrum clearly shows that the thiosulfate methylene peak shifted upfield, from 39 ppm to 35 ppm. The complete 13 C NMR and IR analysis of the product were consistent with the disulfide product. Further, elemental analysis of the product confirmed that the product was the desired disulfide product 2-amino (2-hydroxy 3-(phenyl ether) propyl) ethyl disulfide (AHPEPED) Expected C 58.39, H 7.08, N 6.20, S 14.18 actual C 58.26, H 7.22, N 6.06, S 14.28. 

There have been many attempts to mimic some features of photosynthesis with abiotic systems for purposes of artificial solar energy conversion. Ideally a fuel, e.g., H2, is formed through a photosynthetic process. Photolysis of water is a highly endergonic process ... 

All PCDD/F isomers are solids with high melting points, but low vapor pressure and low solubihty in water. The high octanol-water coefficients are an indication of the observed bioaccumulative behavior in plants and animals for these compounds. Detailed environmentally important physicochemical properties can be found in the literature. All higher chlorinated compounds are very persistent in the environment with half-lives of 5-10 years photolysis with sunlight is the only degradation process in the environment. 

Some photocatalysts are used to adsorb visible light and then transmit the energy of appropriate wavelength and intensity to water molecules to liberate the constituent gases. The photolysis with a photo catalyst X can be expressed as follows ... 

The photochemical reactions of borazine with oxygen and with water were studied in 1967 The oxygen photolysis reaction produced B-monohydroxy-borazine when borazine was present in excess and diborazinyl when O2 was present in excess. Diborazinyl ether is also produced in the 184.9 run photolysis of borazine with water. This latter reaction is very efficient and diborazinyl ether is often formed in photolysis reactions whenever small amounts of water are present. 

Hexanone is a ketone, and ketones are generally not degraded by hydrolysis (Lande et al. 1976 Morrison and Boyd 1974). Based on its reactions in air, it seems likely that 2-hexanone will undergo photolysis in water, however no information was located. Based on studies with microorganisms (see Section 5.3.2.3), it is probable that 2-hexanone will be biodegraded in water. 

Lewis acids such as BF3 and SbCl5, almost always in conjuction with water or some other protogen, initiate polymerization of cyclic ethers. The initiator and coinitiator form an initiator-coinitiator complex [e.g., BF3 H20, H+(SbCl6) ], which acts as a proton donor (Sec. 5-2a-2). Cationic photopolymerizations are achieved when similar proton donors are formed by the photolysis of diaryliodonium and triarylsulfonium salts (Sec. 5-2a-4). 

The early work on the photolysis of water was in the gas phase employing one photon. The branching ratio of the photodissociation into H + OH and H2 + O was reported by McNesby et al. [28] as 3 1 at a photon energy of 10.03 eV. Ever since, that ratio has been consistently revised in favor of the H + OH reaction with the final result of Stief et al. [29] giving 0.99 0.01 for 6.70-8.54 eV photon energy and 0.89 0.11 for the interval 8.54-11.80 eV. In the absence of direct determination these ratios often are assumed valid in the liquid phase. In the early work of Sokolev and Stein [30], mainly the photodissociation quantum yield in liquid water was measured, but a small photoionization yield of -0.05 was attributed to the process... 

Another method for determining the presence of triplet intermediates in a photochemical reaction is direct spectroscopic evidence using flash photolytic methods. Little of this has yet been tried. Flash photolysis of 101,3-dimethyluracil solutions in water or in dry cyclohexane did not give any new absorption bands in the visible or near UV in the time interval 2-600 (xsec after the flash.108 This preliminary observation seems to weaken the case for a triplet intermediate and also seems to exclude any radical intermediates in the reaction of dimethyluracil with water. 

SO, (Table 4.22), that photolysis of this compound will become important at higher altitudes, sufficiently so to compete with its reaction with water to form sulfuric acid. Compare the S03 photolysis rate for an overhead sun for an altitude of 0 km to its rate of hydrolysis assuming a collision-controlled value for the effective bimolecular rate constant of 10 111 cm3 molecule-1 s-1 and 50% RH at 298 K at the earth s surface. 

The major source of OH in remote areas is the photolysis of O, to electronically excited O( D), followed by its reaction with water vapor ... 

The most universal characteristic of remote regions compared to those clearly subject to anthropogenic influences is the low NOx (see Crutzen, 1995, for a review). Under these conditions, OH is generated by the photolysis of O, to O( D), followed by its reaction with water vapor, which occurs in competition with deactivation to 0(3P) ... 

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