Singlet Molecular Oxygen Wayne

In 1963, E. J. Bowen published his classic review The Photochemistry of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Solutions, in which he described two major reaction pathways for PAHs irradiated in organic solvents photodimerization and photooxidation mediated by the addition of singlet molecular oxygen, 02 ) (or simply 102), to a PAH (e.g., anthracene). For details on the spectroscopy and photochemistry of this lowest electronically excited singlet state of molecular oxygen, see Chapter 4.A, the monograph by Wayne (1988), and his review article (1994). For compilations of quantum yields of formation and of rate constants for the decay and reactions of 02( A), see Wilkinson et al., 1993 and 1995, respectively. 

Pitts, J. N., Jr., A. Khan, E. B. Smith, and R. P. Wayne, Singlet Oxygen in the Environmental Sciences Singlet Molecular Oxygen and Photochemical Air Pollution, Environ. Sci, Technol., 3, 241-247 (1969). 

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