Accession Number:

AD0725853

Title:

Photosensitized Dehydrogenation of Crystalline Durene: Mechanism of Duryl Radical Formation.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

CALIFORNIA UNIV LOS ANGELES

Personal Author(s):

• Migirdicyan,Eva

Report Date:

1971-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

40.0

Abstract:

The photosensitized dehydrogenation of durene doped with 2,4,5-trimethyl-benzaldehyde and naphthalene-d8 gives rise to duryl 2,4,5-trimethylbenzyl radicals. The rate of production of these radicals was studied as a function of the guest, of photolyzing light intensity and of temperature. The experimental data show that the mechanism of radical formation is dependent upon the nature of the particular guest involved. In naphthalene-d8durene mixed crystals, duryl radical is probably formed by a stepwise biphotonic absorption process involving the first triplet state of the guest as an intermediate. The results show that radical formation is not responsible for the temperature dependence of the naphthalene-d8 phosphorescence lifetime in durene host at T 220K. In 2,4,5-trimethylbenzaldehydedurene mixtures, the formation of duryl radical is a monophotonic process and the overall reaction is the hydrogen abstraction of aromatic carbonyl compounds with a lowest n,pi triplet state, a process which has been extensively studied in liquid solutions. However the use of the solid state together with low temperature techniques has revealed the intervention of a new transient species as a precursor to matrix dehydrogenation. Author

Descriptors:

• *BENZENE
• *DEHYDROGENATION
• *FREE RADICALS
• *PHOTOLYSIS
• SYNTHESIS(CHEMISTRY)
• DEHYDROGENATION
• REACTION KINETICS
• DEUTERIUM COMPOUNDS
• NAPHTHALENES
• DOPING
• PHOSPHORESCENCE

Subject Categories:

• Physical Chemistry
• Radiation and Nuclear Chemistry

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE