Photoinduced hydrogen abstraction from phenols by aromatic ketones. A new mechanism for hydrogen abstraction by carbonyl n, π* and π, π* triplets

WJ Leigh, EC Lathioor, MJ St. Pierre

Index: Leigh, William J.; Lathioor, Edward C.; St. Pierre, Michael J. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1996 , vol. 118, # 49 p. 12339 - 12348

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Abstract

Nanosecond laser flash photolysis studies have been carried out of the kinetics of inter-and intramolecular phenolic hydrogen abstraction by alkoxyacetophenone, 5-alkoxyindanone, and 4-alkoxybenzophenone triplets in acetonitrile and benzene solution. Information on the geometric requirements for abstraction by carbonyl n, π* and π, π* triplets is derived from the results for a series of ketones which contain a para-phenolic moiety attached via a para- ...