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A surpnsing feature of the reactions of hexafluoroacetone, trifluoropyruvates, and their acyl imines is the C-hydroxyalkylation or C-amidoalkylaOon of activated aromatic hydrocarbons or heterocycles even in the presence of unprotected ammo or hydroxyl functions directly attached to the aromatic core Normally, aromatic amines first react reversibly to give N-alkylated products that rearrange thermally to yield C-alkylated products. With aromatic heterocycles, the reaction usually takes place at the site of the maximum n electron density [55] (equaUon 5). 

Importantly, the purple color is completely restored upon recooling the solution. Thus, the thermal electron-transfer equilibrium depicted in equation (35) is completely reversible over multiple cooling/warming cycles. On the other hand, the isolation of the pure cation-radical salt in quantitative yield is readily achieved by in vacuo removal of the gaseous nitric oxide and precipitation of the MA+ BF4 salt with diethyl ether. This methodology has been employed for the isolation of a variety of organic cation radicals from aromatic, olefinic and heteroatom-centered donors.174 However, competitive donor/acceptor complexation complicates the isolation process in some cases.175... 

As noted with the reactions between terpenes and dihalocarbenes, mono-insertion adducts at the more electron-rich sites can be isolated from the reaction of non-conju-gated acyclic and cyclic dienes although, depending on the reaction conditions, the bis-adducts may also be formed. Norbomadiene produces both 1,2-endo and 1,2-exo mono-insertion adducts with dichlorocarbene, as well as a 1,4-addition product (Scheme 7.4) [67]. The mono adduct produced from the reaction with dimethylvinylidene carbene rearranges thermally to yield the ring-expanded product (Scheme 7.4) [157] a similar ring-expanded product is produced with cyclo-hexylidene carbene [149]. 

Trifluoroethyl chloride, bromide, and iodide (but not fluoride) react with thio-late ions in DMF under laboratory illumination at 30-50 °C to give high yields of 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl thiol derivatives. Various features of the reactions show that they occur by the 5 rnI mechanism. The initiation may be spontaneous or thermal electron transfer between thiolate and halides, because the reactions can occur in the dark. 

In contrast to thermal electron-transfer processes, the back-electron transfer (BET) (kbet) in the PET is generally exergonic as well. The apparent contradiction can be resolved by the cyclic process excitation-electron transfer-back-electron transfer in which the excitation energy is consumed. The back-electron transfer is not the formal reverse reaction of the photoinduced-electron-transfer step and so not necessarily endergonic. This has different influences on PET reactions. On the one hand, BET is the reason for energy consumption and low quantum yields. On the other hand, it can cause more complex reaction mechanisms if the... 

Sensitized PET reactions are often very slow and have low quantum yields due to dominating back-electron transfer. In these cases, the addition of cosubtrates (e.g., biphenyl or phenanthrene to DCA- or DCN-sensitized reactions) is useful. The use of such an additive is called cosensitization. In these reactions, the substrate is not oxidized (or reduced) by the excited sensitizer but by the radical ion of the cosensitizer (ET, ). This is a thermal electron-transfer step without the problems of back-electron transfer. The key step is the primary PET process (ETJ in which the cosensitizer radical ion is formed. The main characteristic of cosensitization systems is the high quantum yield of the free-radical ion (e.g., overall quantum yield is high and the reaction is fast (Scheme 7). 

In the second step, the thermalized electrons will either recombine with the ions in the track or spur or escape. The yield of free electrons is the integral of the product D r) x P(r) times the number of electron-ion pairs formed initially in the spur or track, Gtot, where P(r) is the probability of escape. For a single ion pair, P(r) is given by [5] ... 

The alkali metals in general yield intense visible light emission due to the radiative transitions of the S1 electrons. Further, the low ionization energy of these metals (Rb and Cs) results in ease of thermal electron emission which gives rise to a number of interesting applications. In fact, the use of Rb and Cs salts stems from these facts. 

One of the reasons for the discrepancy between experimental and calculated kinetic curves appears to be the fact that the initial radiation yield of the trapped electrons in the presence of acceptors is different from that in their absence, i.e. a 0. In experiments performed to study tunneling reactions of etr, the concentration of acceptor additives often amounted to 10 2 M and more, which exceeds that of the traps for electrons in water-alkaline matrices (c = 10 4 to 10 2M) or is commensurable with it. Under these conditions the acceptor molecules can be expected to compete with matrix traps for the capture of thermalized electrons and, as a result, the initial yield of etr may decrease in the presence of acceptors. 

As noted earlier, the parameter V = V + a contains two terms, one of which characterizes the capture of stabilized electrons et, and the second, that of thermalized electrons et , by the acceptor. Since the value of V = (4/3)7tRt = (nal/6) n3vet grows monotonously with time, the relative contribution of these terms depends on the moment of measuring the radiation yield. From the values of the parameters ve, and a found from the analysis of kinetic curves for etr decay in the presence of different acceptors in the water alkaline matrices (see Table 2) one can draw certain conclusions about the relationship between V" and a. In Table 5 the values of a found for a number of reactions of etr in water-alkaline glasses are compared with those of V calculated for different times,t, from the relationship... 

Several galaxy clusters show also an emission of extreme UV (Lieu et al. 1996, Durret et al. 2002) and soft X-ray (Bonamente et al. 2002, Kaastra et al. 2002) radiation in excess w.r.t. the thermal bremsstrahlung emission. This EUV emission excess may be consistent with both ICS of CMB photons off a non-thermal electron population (e.g., Lieu et al. 1999, Bowyer 2000) with Ee = 608.5 MeV (hv/keV)1/2 149 MeV for hv 60 eV, and with thermal emission from a warm gas at ksTe V 1 keV (Bonamente et al. 2002). In the case of Coma, the simple extrapolation of the ICS spectrum which fits the HXR excess down to energies 0.25 keV does not fit the EUV excess measured in Coma because it is too steep and yields a too high flux compared to the measured flux by the EUV satellite in the 0.065 — 0.245 keV band (Ensslin Biermann 1998). Thus, under the assumption that the HXR and the EUV emission of Coma is produced by ICS of CMB photons, the minimal requirement is that a break in the electron spectrum should be present in the range 0.3 — 2.8 GeV in order to avoid an excessive EUV contribution by the ICS emission and to be consistent with the radio halo spectrum. 

Numerous photodimerization studies of 1,3-cyclohexadiene 36 have been reported (Sch. 9). Thermal cycloaddition yields a 4 1 mixture of endo/ exo [4+2] adducts 37 and 38 in modest yield. Irradiation of the diene in cyclohexane near its 2max of 254 nm yields very little dimer, but irradiation at 313 nm leads to a mixture of dimers, favoring the [2+2] adducts 39 [37]. The use of y-radiation produces similar mixtures [38,39]. A triplet sensitizer leads to largely the [2+2] adducts plus exo 38 and little of the endo [4+2] isomer 37 [40]. When the photochemistry is conducted in the presence of the electron acceptors anthracene 41, LiC104-42 or pyrylium 43, only [4+2]... 

Almost all neutral substances are able to yield positive ions, whereas negative ions require the presence of acidic groups or electronegative elements to produce them. This allows some selectivity for their detection in mixtures. Negative ions can be produced by capture of thermal electrons by the analyte molecule or by ion-molecule reactions between analyte and ions present in the reagent plasma. 

Bocarsly, Pfennig and co workers reported interesting multi electron photoreac tions for the trimeric M" Ptlv M" complexes 25a-c.212 215 In this system, a single photon excitation into the intervalence charge transfer band results dissociation of the trimer into [Pt(NH3)4]2+ and two equivalents of a M111. The initial photoexcited complex is though to dissociate first to a Mm complex and Ptni-Mn intermediate. The latter dimer subsequently undergoes a thermal electron transfer reaction to yield the final products. 

Norbomene adds to photolytically produced ethoxycarbonylnitrene specifically at the exo face the same aziridine is produced in the thermal addition of ethoxycarbonyl azide, but via the triazoline rather than the nitrene, with much imine by-product. There can be problems of selectivity and rearrangements when one reacts ethoxycarbonylnitrene with more complex substrates, e.g. alkenic steroids. Ethoxycarbonylnitrene via a-elimination) adds to vinyl chlorides to give 2-chloroaziridines, which can be rearranged thermally to yield 2-chloroallyl carbamates. This nitrene also adds to enamines, giving an array of rearranged products. A modem discussion of the reactivities of ethoxycarbonylnitrene (electrophilic) in comparison with phthalimidonitrene (nucleophilic) towards alkenes of different electronic properties has tqipeared. ... 

For systems that are powerful excited-state reductants, photoreduction of alkyl halides is observed (6.16). This reaction was initially interpreted to be an outer-sphere electron transfer to form the radical anion, which rapidly decomposes to yield R- and X . Subsequent thermal reactions yield the observed products, an SrnI mechanism (Figure 3a). While such a mechanism, SrnI, appears plausible for a metal complex with E°(M2 /3M2 ) < -1.5 V (SSCE), it seems unlikely for complexes with E°(M2 /3M2 ) > -1.0 V (SSCE). Reduction potentials for alkyl halides of interest are generally more negative than -1.5 V (SSCE) (1/7). Alkyl halide photoreduction is observed for binudear d complexes whose excited-state reduction potentials are more positive than -1.0 V (SSCE) in CH3CN. 

Most recently, Mizuno et al. presented a femtosecond version (250 fs time resolution, 160 cm spectral resolution) of the RR experiment to probe the O-H band of the electron as it hydrates following 2 X 4.66 eV photon excitation. Mizuno et al. conclude that the precursor of the hydrated electron that undergoes continuous blue shift on the time scale of 1-2 ps also yields a downshifted O-H stretch signal whose resonance enhancement follows the efficiency of Raman excitation as the absorption spectrum of the s-like state shifts to the blue (thus indirectly confirming its identity as a hot s-like state). The comparison of anti-Stokes and Stokes Raman intensities indicates that the local temperature rise is < 100 K at 250 fs. This estimate agrees with the estimates based on the evolution of the spectral envelope during the thermalization, using the dependence of the absorption maximum of thermalized electron on the bath temperature. 

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