Ribblett AQ, Poole JS. A Laser Flash Photolysis Study of Azo-Compound Formation from Aryl Nitrenes at Room Temperature.
J Phys Chem A 2016;
120:4267-76. [PMID:
27301876 DOI:
10.1021/acs.jpca.6b03025]
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Abstract
The species 4-nitrenopyridine 1-oxide is known to exhibit triplet nitrene dominated chemistry to yield azo-dimer products exclusively, even at room temperature. As such, this species, and its analogue 4-nitrenoquinoline 1-oxide, are useful models to probe the mechanism of formation of azo-dimers, which is postulated to proceed by self-reaction of the nitrene or reaction of nitrene with the parent azide. A laser flash photolysis study is described where the kinetics of formation of azo-dimer were found to be most adequately modeled by competition between both mechanisms, and rate coefficients for the competing reactions were determined.
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