Radicals pairs

Surfactants have also been of interest for their ability to support reactions in normally inhospitable environments. Reactions such as hydrolysis, aminolysis, solvolysis, and, in inorganic chemistry, of aquation of complex ions, may be retarded, accelerated, or differently sensitive to catalysts relative to the behavior in ordinary solutions (see Refs. 205 and 206 for reviews). The acid-base chemistry in micellar solutions has been investigated by Drummond and co-workers [207]. A useful model has been the pseudophase model [206-209] in which reactants are either in solution or solubilized in micelles and partition between the two as though two distinct phases were involved. In inverse micelles in nonpolar media, water is concentrated in the micellar core and reactions in the micelle may be greatly accelerated [206, 210]. The confining environment of a solubilized reactant may lead to stereochemical consequences as in photodimerization reactions in micelles [211] or vesicles [212] or in the generation of radical pairs [213]. 

An atom or a molecule with the total spin of the electrons S = 1 is said to be in a triplet state. The multiplicity of such a state is (2.S +1)=3. Triplet systems occur in both excited and ground state molecules, in some compounds containing transition metal ions, in radical pair systems, and in some defects in solids. 

The low MW power levels conuuonly employed in TREPR spectroscopy do not require any precautions to avoid detector overload and, therefore, the fiill time development of the transient magnetization is obtained undiminished by any MW detection deadtime. (3) Standard CW EPR equipment can be used for TREPR requiring only moderate efforts to adapt the MW detection part of the spectrometer for the observation of the transient response to a pulsed light excitation with high time resolution. (4) TREPR spectroscopy proved to be a suitable teclmique for observing a variety of spin coherence phenomena, such as transient nutations [16], quantum beats [17] and nuclear modulations [18], that have been usefi.il to interpret EPR data on light-mduced spm-correlated radical pairs. 

Kothe G, Weber S, BittI R, Ohmes E, Thurnauer M and Norris J 1991 Transient EPR of light-induced radical pairs in plant photosystem I observation of quantum beats Chem. Rhys. Lett. 186 474-80... 

CIDNP involves the observation of diamagnetic products fonned from chemical reactions which have radical intemiediates. We first define the geminate radical pair (RP) as the two molecules which are bom in a radical reaction with a well defined phase relation (singlet or triplet) between their spins. Because the spin physics of the radical pair are a fiindamental part of any description of the origins of CIDNP, it is instmctive to begin with a discussion of the radical-pair spin Hamiltonian. The Hamiltonian can be used in conjunction with an appropriate basis set to obtain the energetics and populations of the RP spin states. A suitable Hamiltonian for a radical pair consisting of radicals 1 and 2 is shown in equation (B1.16.1) below [12]. 

The first temi describes the electronic Zeeman energy, which is the interaction of the magnetic field with the two electrons of the radical pair with the magnetic field, Bq. The two electron spins are represented by spin... 

Figure Bl.16.4. Part A is the vector representations of the. S state, an intennediate state, and the Jq state of a radical pair. Part B is the radical reaction scheme for CIDNP.

Figure Bl.16.5. An example of the CIDNP net effect for a radical pair with one hyperfme interaction. Initial conditions g > g2, negative and the RP is initially singlet. Polarized nuclear spin states and schematic NMR spectra are shown for the recombination and scavenging products in the boxes.

Since Ag is positive and is negative, Q is larger for the p state than for the a state. Radical pairs in the p nuclear spin state will experience a faster intersystem crossing rate than those in the a state with the result that more RPs in the p nuclear spin state will become triplets. The end result is that the scavenging product, which is fonned primarily from triplet RPs, will have an excess of spins in the p state while the recombination product, which is fonned from singlet RPs, will have an excess of a nuclear spin states. 

Figure Bl.16.8. Example of CIDNP multiplet effect for a syimnetric radical pair with two hyperfme interactions on each radical. Part A is the radical pair. Part B shows the spin levels with relative Q values indicated on each level. Part C shows the spm levels with relative populations indicated by the thickness of each level and the schematic NMR spectrum of the recombination product.

Wliile the earliest TR-CIDNP work focused on radical pairs, biradicals soon became a focus of study. Biradicals are of interest because the exchange interaction between the unpaired electrons is present tliroiighoiit the biradical lifetime and, consequently, the spin physics and chemical reactivity of biradicals are markedly different from radical pairs. Work by Morozova et al [28] on polymethylene biradicals is a fiirther example of how this method can be used to separate net and multiplet effects based on time scale [28]. Figure Bl.16.11 shows how the cyclic precursor, 2,12-dihydroxy-2,12-dimethylcyclododecanone, cleaves upon 308 mn irradiation to fonn an acyl-ketyl biradical, which will be referred to as the primary biradical since it is fonned directly from the cyclic precursor. The acyl-ketyl primary biradical decarbonylates rapidly k Q > 5 x... 

Utilizing FT-EPR teclmiques, van Willigen and co-workers have studied the photoinduced electron transfer from zinc tetrakis(4-sulfonatophenyl)porphyrin (ZnTPPS) to duroquinone (DQ) to fonn ZnTPPS and DQ in different micellar solutions [34, 63]. Spin-correlated radical pairs [ZnTPPS. . . DQ ] are fomied initially, and the SCRP lifetime depends upon the solution enviromnent. The ZnTPPS is not observed due to its short T2 relaxation time, but the spectra of DQ allow for the detemiination of the location and stability of reactant and product species in the various micellar solutions. While DQ is always located within the micelle, tire... 

Figure Bl.16.22. Schematic representations of CIDEP spectra for hypothetical radical pair CH + R. Part A shows the A/E and E/A RPM. Part B shows the absorptive and emissive triplet mechanism. Part C shows the spin-correlated RPM for cases where J and J a.. ...

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Norris J R, Morris A L, Thurnauer M C and Tang J 1990 A general model of electron spin polarization arising from the interactions within radical pairs J. Chem. Phys. 92 4239—49... 

Avdievich N I and Forbes M D E 1995 Dynamic effects in spin-correlated radical pair theory J modulation and a new look at the phenomenon of alternating line widths in the EPR spectra of flexible biradicals J. Phys. Chem. 99 9660-7... 

Forbes M D E, Schulz G R and Avdievich N I 1996 Unusual dynamics of micellized radical pairs generated from photochemically active amphiphiles J. Am. Chem. Soc. 118 10 652-3... 

Forbes M D E, Avdievich N I, Schulz G R and Ball J D 1996 Chain dynamics cause the disappearance of spin-correlated radical pair polarization in flexible biradicals J. Phys. Chem. 100 13 887-91... 

BittI R, van der Est A, Kamlowski A, Lubitz W and Stehlik D 1994 Time-resolved EPR of the radical pair bacterial reaction centers. Observation of transient nutations, quantum beats and... 

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Carbonera D, DiValentin M, Corva]a C, Agostini G, Giacometti G, Liddell P A, Kuciauskas D, Moore A L, Moore T A and Gust D 1998 EPR investigation of photoinduced radical pair formation and decay to a triplet state in a carotene-porphyrin-fullerene triad J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120 4398-405... 

The extent of decarboxylation primarily depends on temperature, pressure, and the stabihty of the incipient R- radical. The more stable the R- radical, the faster and more extensive the decarboxylation. With many diacyl peroxides, decarboxylation and oxygen—oxygen bond scission occur simultaneously in the transition state. Acyloxy radicals are known to form initially only from diacetyl peroxide and from dibenzoyl peroxides (because of the relative instabihties of the corresponding methyl and phenyl radicals formed upon decarboxylation). Diacyl peroxides derived from non-a-branched carboxyhc acids, eg, dilauroyl peroxide, may also initially form acyloxy radical pairs however, these acyloxy radicals decarboxylate very rapidly and the initiating radicals are expected to be alkyl radicals. Diacyl peroxides are also susceptible to induced decompositions ... 

Diall l Peroxides. Some commercially available diaLkyl peroxides and their corresponding 10-h half-life temperatures in dodecane are Hsted in Table 6 (44). DiaLkyl peroxides initially cleave at the oxygen—oxygen bond to generate alkoxy radical pairs ... 

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