- Carbenes in Constrained Systems, 3. Solid-State Photolysis of Cycloheptane- and Cyclooctanespirodiazirine within Cyclodextrins and Zeolites
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Inclusion complexes of cycloheptanespirodiazirine (1) and cyclooctanespirodiazirine (8) in α-, β-, and γ-cyclodextrin, and faujasite type zeolites (NaX and NaY), have been prepared.The guest-host complexes (1- and 8CD and 1- and 8zeolite) were irradiated with UV light in the solid state and the reaction products were separated from the host and analyzed.Product ratios from photolysis of complexes were compared with those obtained from pure compounds and in solution.Cycloheptanespirodiazirine (1) gives cycloheptene (2), bicycloheptane (3), and methylenecyclohexane (4).Photolysis products from cyclooctanespirodiazirine (8) are cyclooctene (9), bicyclooctane (10), and bicyclooctane (11). 10 results from a 1,5-C-H insertion reaction of the carbene derived from 8.As the cavity size of the cyclodextrins becomes larger, the formation of 10 seems to increase.In β-cyclodextrin and in non-polar solvents substantial amounts of azine were found.In addition to hydrocarbons, photolyses in zeolites afforded alcohols and small amounts of the corresponding ketones. - Keywords: Diazirines / Zeolites / Cyclodextrins / Photochemistry / Carbenes
- Kupfer, Rene,Brinker, Udo H.
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p. 1721 - 1726
(2007/10/03)
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- Radiolysis of Cyclooctane with γ-Rays and Helium Ions
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Iodine scavenging techniques have been used to examine the role of the cyclooctyl radical in the radiolysis of cyclooctane with γ-rays and with 5-20-MeV helium ions.In γ-radiolysis about 70percent of the total yield of 6.6 cyclooctyl radicals/100 eV are scavenged with E-4 M iodine, which agrees well with other studies on cycloalkanes that show most of the radicals produced in these systems react in the bulk medium at times longer than 1 μs.However, it is found that 2.5 radicals/100 eV (38percent) are produced by H atom precursors as copmpared to a value of 1.5 cyclohexyl radicals/100 eV (25percent) in cyclohexane.With 10-MeV helium ions (average LET of 106 eV/nm), only 8percent of the cyclooctyl radicals survive longer than a few microseconds due to the increased initial radical concentration in the helium ion track.The yield of the cross-bridged product bicyclooctane (pentalane) was found to be independent of iodine concentration up to 0.03 M with both types of radiation.However, the pentalane yield found with 10-MeV helium ions was only one-third of that found in γ-radiolysis.The most likely reason for this result is the decreased yield of singlet-state formation due to the enhanced probability of cross combination reactions of electron-cation pairs in the high-density region of the helium ion track.
- Wojnarovits, Laszlo,LaVerne, Jay A.
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p. 8014 - 8018
(2007/10/02)
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