title: Photochemistry of a chiral salen aluminum complex in nonconventional solvents: use of imidazolium ionic liquids and chiral alcohols.
abstract: The photochemistry of a chiral (salen)aluminum(III) chloride complex has been studied in nonconventional solvents, namely, two imidazolium ionic liquids differing on the hydrophobicity (hydrophilic BF(4)(-) or hydrophobic PF(6)(-) counter anions) and in chiral 2-butanols (R and S). Upon 355 nm laser excitation, the same transient absorption spectrum (with some solvatochromic shift in lambda(max)) was recorded in all cases and assigned to the (salen)Al(II) complex with radicaloid character at the metal atom. This intermediate arises from the photoinduced homolytic cleavage of the apical Al-Cl bond. The half-life of this radicaloid Al(II) species varies depending on the solvent, indicating that its reactivity is governed by the nature of the ionic liquid and also on the R or S configuration of the chiral alcohol.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica CSIC-UPV and Departamento de Quimica, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Avda de los Naranjos s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: Séverine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marquis
authors.forename: Belén
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ferrer
authors.forename: Mercedes
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alvaro
authors.forename: Hermenegildo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Garcia