Electron-transfer-induced tautomerization in methylindanones: Electronic control of the tunneling rate for enolization

…, T Bally, T Filipiak, A Marcinek, J Gebicki

Index: Bally, Thomas; Bernhard, Stefan; Matzinger, Stephan; Roulin, Jean-Luc; Narahari Sastry; Truttmann, Leo; Zhu, Zhendong; Marcinek, Andrzej; Adamus, Jan; Kaminski, Rafal; Gebicki, Jerzy; Williams, Ffrancon; Chen, Guo-Fei; Fuelscher, Markus P. Chemistry - A European Journal, 2000 , vol. 6, # 5 p. 858 - 868

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Abstract

The radical cations generated from 4-methyl-and 4, 7-dimethylindanone, as well as their deuterated isotopomers, isolated in Argon matrices, were found to undergo enolization to the corresponding enol radical cations at rates that differ by orders of magnitude. It is shown