title: Methanesulfonyl Azide: Molecular Structure and Photolysis in Solid Noble Gas Matrices.
abstract: The parent sulfonyl azide CH3SO2N3 has been characterized in a neat form by IR (gas, matrix-isolation) and Raman (solid) spectroscopy, and its structure has been established by X-ray crystallography. In both gas phase and solid state, the azide exhibits single conformation with the azido ligand being synperiplanar to one of the two S═O groups. In the crystal molecules of CH3SO2N3 are interconnected through three-dimensional O···H-C-H···O hydrogen bonds. Upon an ArF laser (193 nm) photolysis, the azide in solid noble gas matrices splits off N2 and yields the sulfonyl nitrene CH3SO2N in the triplet ground state. Subsequent photolysis with UV light (266 nm) causes the transformation from the nitrene to the pseudo-Curtius rearrangement product CH3NSO2. The identification of the photolysis intermediates by matrix-isolation IR spectroscopy is supported by quantum chemical calculations with DFT methods.
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University , 215123 Suzhou, China.
authors.forename: Guohai
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University , 215123 Suzhou, China.
authors.forename: Dingqing
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University , 215123 Suzhou, China.
authors.forename: Zhuang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University , 215123 Suzhou, China.
authors.forename: Hongmin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: FB C-Anorganische Chemie, Bergische Universität Wuppertal , Gaussstrasse 20, 42119 Wuppertal, Germany.
authors.forename: Eduard
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bernhardt
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University , 215123 Suzhou, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoqing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zeng