Reactivity and intersystem crossing of singlet methylene in solution

NJ Turro, Y Cha, IR Gould

Index: Turro, Nicholas J.; Cha, Yuan; Gould, Ian R. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1987 , vol. 109, # 7 p. 2101 - 2107

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Abstract

Abstract: Evidence is reported which demonstrates that singlet methylene, produced from the photolysis of diazomethane or diazirine, undergoes intersystem crossing to form triplet methylene in perfluorohexane solvent. The results of triplet sensitized photolysis and of direct photolysis experiments with dilute concentrations of substrate (cis-and trans-2- pentene and chloroform) appear to be essentially identical. Stern-Volmer analyses of the ...