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Electron Transfer, Photoinduced In Organic Systems, Control of Back... 

We see therefore that photoactive semiconductor particles provide ideal environments for control of interfacial electron transfer. Photoinduced electron-hole pairs formed on irradiated semiconductor suspensions, as in photoelectrochemical cells, allow for reactivity control not available in homogeneous solution. This altered activity derives from controlled adsorption on a chemically manipula-ble surface, controlled potential afforded by the valence band edge positions, controlled kinetics by virtue of band bending effects, and controlled current flow by judicious choice of incident light intensity. 

Election transfer remains one of the most important processes explored when using interfacial supramolecular assemblies and given the emerging area of molecular electronics, this trend is set to continue. Therefore, Chapter 2 outlines the fundamental theoretical principles behind the electiochemically and photochemi-cally induced processes that are important for interfacial supramolecular assemblies. In that chapter, homogeneous and heterogeneous electron transfer, photoinduced proton transfer and photoisomerizations are considered. 

Apart from electron transfer, photoinduced energy transfer processes are widely observed within both natural and artificial systems and play a particularly important role at surfaces. 

Another similar example, also used in polymerization initiation, is the case of the iodonium salts of Rose Bengal (RB2-) [224, 225]. Methylene chloride solutions of these salts bleach in a few seconds in room light through an electron transfer photoinduced from the excited RB2- to the iodonium cation the resulting phenyl radicals were reported to initiate polymerization of acrylate. 

Bond distortion, spin crossover Sensitization, energy transfer Photoinduced electron transfer Hydrogen atom abstraction Photooxidation, photoreduction Photoaddition, photosubstitution Photodissociation, photo-cleavage Photoisomerizations Photodimerization, photo-pol3nnerization... 

Topics which have formed the subjects of reviews this year include excited state chemistry within zeolites, photoredox reactions in organic synthesis, selectivity control in one-electron reduction, the photochemistry of fullerenes, photochemical P-450 oxygenation of cyclohexene with water sensitized by dihydroxy-coordinated (tetraphenylporphyrinato)antimony(V) hexafluorophosphate, bio-mimetic radical polycyclisations of isoprenoid polyalkenes initiated by photo-induced electron transfer, photoinduced electron transfer involving C o/CjoJ comparisons between the photoinduced electron transfer reactions of 50 and aromatic carbonyl compounds, recent advances in the chemistry of pyrrolidino-fullerenes, ° photoinduced electron transfer in donor-linked fullerenes," supra-molecular model systems,and within dendrimer architecture,photoinduced electron transfer reactions of homoquinones, amines, and azo compounds, photoinduced reactions of five-membered monoheterocyclic compounds of the indigo group, photochemical and polymerisation reactions in solid Qo, photo- and redox-active [2]rotaxanes and [2]catenanes, ° reactions of sulfides and sulfenic acid derivatives with 02( Ag), photoprocesses of sulfoxides and related compounds, semiconductor photocatalysts,chemical fixation and photoreduction of carbon dioxide by metal phthalocyanines, and multiporphyrins as photosynthetic models. 

The three methylenecyclobutanes, 51,52, and 53, do not interconvert under direct irradiation or SET-photosensitized conditions. However, 3,3-diaryl-4,4-dideuterio-l-methylenecyclobutane (d -Sd) does undergo electron-transfer photoinduced degenerate methylene-cy-clobutane rearrangement when either DCN, DCA, or 2,6,9,10-tetracy-anoanthracene is used as sensitizer. These processes involve the allylically stabilized 1,4-cation radical intermediates dj-SS and d -58/-+28 tjjg 1 4-cation radical 58 is efficiently captured by molecular oxygen, giving rise to 73 as shown in Scheme 15. 

The Electron Transfer Photoinduced Degenerate Methylenecyclopropane Rearrangement... 

The energetic process of photosynthesis is represented by Fig. 13-1 where the electron from water is driven to higher energy in two steps (at photosystems II and I, abbreviated to PSII and I) at the reaction center of chlorophyll, and finally reduces CO2 to produce carbohydrate. Metal complexes and metal clusters play a decisive role in photoinduced energy transfer, photoinduced electron transfer and catalysis. 

Scheme 41 Fluorescence intensity vs. wavelength for sensor (phaianthren yrene) (2-5 x 10 mol dm ) displaying energy transfer, photoinduced electron transfer and excimer emission with increasing concentrations of D-glucose (from 0 to 1.0 x 10 mol dm ) in 52.1 wt% MeOHpH 8.21 phosphate buffer. %ex=299 nm.

Fagnoni, M., Mella, M., and Albini, A., Scope and mechanism of the electron transfer photoinduced alkylation of an aromatic nitrile. Tetrahedron, 50, 6401, 1994. 

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