Addition of the carbonyl oxygen to the ipso- Or ortho-carbon atoms of the β-phenyl ring followed by intersystem crossing and rapid relaxation to the ground-state ketones: A mechanism for β-phenyl quenching of the first triplet excited states of derivatives of β-phenylpropiophenone

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 112, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 5411-5417

  Bucher, Götz ^a,b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONYLATION; CROSSINGS (PIPE AND CABLE); EXCITED STATES; GROUND STATE; KETONES; MECHANISMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN;

ACTIVATION ENTHALPIES; ALTERNATIVE MECHANISM; BIRADICALS; CARBON ATOMS; CARBONYL MOIETY; CARBONYL OXYGEN; ELECTRON TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HYPER SURFACES; INTERSYSTEM CROSSING; METHOXY; PHENYL RINGS; RAPID RELAXATION; REACTION PATHWAYS; SINGLET MANIFOLD; SUBSTITUENT AND SOLVENT EFFECTS; SUBSTITUENT EFFECTS; TRIPLET BIRADICALS;

QUENCHING;

EID: 53349144107     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp711266z     Document Type: Article

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