A two-color laser photolysis method for determining reaction rates of short-lived intermediates by product analysis: application to the o-quinodimethane problem

Akihiko Ouchi; Zhong Li; Masako Sakuragi; Tetsuro Majima

doi:10.1021/ja027653v

A two-color laser photolysis method for determining reaction rates of short-lived intermediates by product analysis: application to the o-quinodimethane problem

J Am Chem Soc. 2003 Jan 29;125(4):1104-8. doi: 10.1021/ja027653v.

Authors

Akihiko Ouchi¹, Zhong Li, Masako Sakuragi, Tetsuro Majima

Affiliation

¹ Research Institute for Green Technology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan. ouchi.akihiko@aist.go.jp

PMID: 12537511
DOI: 10.1021/ja027653v

Abstract

A time-delayed, two-color pulse laser photolysis technique was used for a kinetic study of short-lived transient species through product analysis, the determination of the rate constant of the cycloaddition of o-quinodimethane (1) and maleic anhydride (2) in room-temperature solutions. o-Quinodimethane (1) was generated from 1,2-bis[(phenylseleno)methyl]benzene (3) by the irradiation of a pulse of a KrF excimer laser (248 nm) in the presence of excess 2, and a successive pulse of a XeCl excimer laser (308 nm) was irradiated to the reaction mixture after varied delay times from 0 to 0.1 s for the decomposition of the remaining 1 to quench the cycloaddition reaction. The rate constant of the cycloaddition of 1 and 2 was 2.1 x 10(5) M(-1) s(-1), which was obtained by the analysis of the delay-time dependence of the product yields.