title: Temperature and viscosity dependence in the stereoselective formation of the inverted housane for the photochemical nitrogen loss from the deuterium-stereolabeled parent diazabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-ene.
abstract: For the liquid-phase photolytic denitrogenation of the stereolabeled DBH derivative exo-d2-diazabicyclo[2.2.1]heptene (exo-d2-1), the k(inv)/k(ret) ratio of the inverted [2(inv)] and retained [2(ret)] housanes (bicyclo[2.1.0]pentanes) depends on the viscosity of the medium. For this purpose, the viscosity was varied by changing the solvent (various alcohols and diols, n-hexane, and acetonitrile) at constant temperature and by changing the temperature (-50 to +100 degrees C) in one single solvent, namely n-butanol. This viscosity effect is consistent with a stepwise denitrogenation mechanism in the liquid-phase photolysis of DBH, which proceeds through an unsymmetrical, nitrogen-containing transient, namely the singlet diazenyl diradical. The simple free-volume model adequately accounts for the observed viscosity behavior of the k(inv)/k(ret) ratio in terms of frictional effects. The temperature dependence discloses a small but measurable difference in the internal activation energies for the inversion and retention processes of the proposed diazenyl diradical.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Würzburg, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Adam
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grüne
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diedering
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Trofimov