Abstract
Nanosecond time-resolved resonance Raman (ns-TR3) spectroscopy was employed to investigate the triplet state of para-hydroxybenzophenone (p-hBP) in pure acetonitrile (MeCN) and its subsequent deprotonation reaction in a H2O/MeCN mixed solution. The TR3 results reveal that the deprotonation reaction occurred with the p-hBP triplet state as the precursor species after 266 nm photolysis of p-hBP in aH2O/MeCN mixed solution. The ground-state p-hBP anion species was observed to form about 20 ns after excitation in a 5% H2O/95% MeCN mixed solvent. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were done to help obtain information about the structures and vibrational modes of the triplet p-hBP and p-hBP anion species. A reaction scheme is proposed for the photoreaction pathways of p-hBP in pure MeCN and H2O/MeCN mixed solvents. Comparison of the results here for p-hBP to the related para-hydroxyacetophenone (HA) system indicates that substitution of the methyl group in HA with a phenyl group to form p-hBP significantly alters the chemical reactivity of the triplet state so that both deprotonation and intersystem crossing (ISC) for the triplet state occur much faster in p-hBP than in HA.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1518-1525 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Raman Spectroscopy |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2008 |
Keywords
- Anion
- Density functional theory (DFT)
- Para-hydroxybenzophenone (p-HBP)
- Resonance Raman spectroscopy
- Time-resolved
- Triplet state
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Materials Science
- Spectroscopy