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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 16, Issue 23, Pages 6961-6972Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200903073
Keywords
cyclization; photochemistry; Raman spectroscopy; reaction mechanisms; solvent effects; time-resolved spectroscopy
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- Research Grants Council of Hong Kong [HKU 7035/08P, HKU 1/01C]
- Croucher Foundation
- University of Hong Kong
- University of Rochester
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A combined femtosecond transient absorption (fs-TA) and nanosecond time-resolved resonance Raman (ns-TR3) spectroscopic investigation of the photoreaction of 2-benzoylpyridine (2-BPy) in acetonitrile and neutral, basic and acidic aqueous solvents is reported. fs-TA results showed that the n pi* triplet 2-BPy is the precursor of the photocyclisation reaction in neutral and basic aqueous solvents. The cis triplet biradical and the cis singlet zwitterionic species produced during the photocyclisation reaction were initially characterised by ns-TR3 spectroscopy. In addition, a new species was uniquely observed in basic aqueous solvent after the decay of the cis singlet zwitterionic species and this new species was tentatively assigned to the photocyclised radical anion. The ground-state conformation of 2-BPy in acidic aqueous solvent is the pyridine nitrogen-protonated 2-BPy cation (2-BPy-NH+) rather than the neutral form of 2-BPy. After laser photolysis, the singlet excited state (S-1) of 2-BPy-NH+ is generated and evolves through excited-state proton transfer (ESPT) and efficient intersystem crossing (ISC) processes to the triplet exited state (T-1) of the carbonyl oxygen-protonated 2-BPy cation (2-BPy-OH+) and then photocyclises with the lone pair of the nitrogen atom in the heterocyclic ring. Cyclisation reactions take place both in neutral/basic and acidic aqueous solvents, but the photocyclisation mechanisms in these different aqueous solvents are very different. This is likely clue to the different conformation of the precursor and the influence of hydrogen-bonding of the solvent on the reactions. reactions.
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