Canadian Journal of Chemistry

Photochemistry of nitroso compounds in solution. X. The reaction pattern of photo-excited nitrosamides

YL Chow, NS Tam, ACH Lee

Index: Chow,Y.L. et al. Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 1969 , vol. 47, p. 2441 - 2448

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Abstract

The initial step in photolysis of alkyl N-nitrosamides 1 and 2 has been shown to be homolysis of the NN bond, giving amidyl radicals and nitric oxide. Under the reaction conditions nitric oxide disproportionated, in part, to NO2 and NO3 radicals. The amidyl radicals abstracted hydrogen atoms inter-molecularly from the solvent as well as intramolecularly from the δ-carbon of the alkyl chain, but not from that of the acyl chain. ...