Ultrafast Dynamics of Photochemical Nitrile Imine Formation.

ABSTRACT: The chemical reactivity of nitrile imines is of great utility in organic synthesis with applications rapidly expanding into the materials and life sciences. Yet, our understanding of the electronic and molecular structures of nitrile imines remains incomplete and the elementary mechanism of their photoinduced generation is entirely unknown. Here, femtosecond infrared spectroscopy after 266 nm-excitation of 2,5-diphenyltetrazole has been carried out to temporally resolve the formation and structural relaxation dynamics of the nascent diphenylnitrile imine in liquid solution under ambient conditions. The infrared-spectroscopic evolution is interpreted by an initial sequence of intersystem crossings within 250 fs followed by the cleavage of N₂ with formation of a structurally relax

SUBMITTER: Flesch S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9400991 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature