Ultrafast study of the photochemistry of 2-azidonitrobenzene.
[reaction: see text] Ultrafast time-resolved studies of the photochemistry of 2-azidonitrobenzene demonstrate that the lifetimes of excited singlet 2-azidonitrobenzene and 2-nitrophenylnitrene are 500 fs and 8.3 ps, respectively, in solution at ambient temperature. The singlet nitrene is a discrete intermediate but is too short lived to undergo bimolecular reactions.
McCulla
Ryan D
RD
Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, 1118 Newman-Wolfrom, 100 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
Burdzinski
Gotard
G
Platz
Matthew S
MS