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DOI: 10.1039/A900760A (Paper) Reference Section for: J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 1999, 1439-1442

Influence of solvent polarity on the photoreactivity of 2–4-ring aromatic o-quinones

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Mónica Barra, Edward D. Harder and Jonathan P. Balfe

Abstract

The solvent polarity dependence of the photoreactivity of naphthalene-1,2-dione (1), acenaphthylene-1,2-dione (2), phenanthrene-9,10-dione (3), and aceanthrylene-1,2-dione (4) was investigated by means of nanosecond laser-flash photolysis techniques. The reactivity of the triplets of 1, 2, and 3 towards hydrogen abstraction increases as the polarity of the solvent decreases owing to an inversion between n,π* and π,π* triplet states relatively close in energy. The relative increase in triplet reactivity follows the order 2 < 3 < 1. In the case of 4 no inversion of triplet levels is detected; the lowest excited triplet state of 4 is π,π* in character in both polar and nonpolar solvents.

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