Journal of the American Chemical Society

Are aroylnitrenes ground-state singlets? Photochemistry of. beta.-naphthoyl azide

T Autrey, GB Schuster

Index: Autrey, Tom; Schuster, Gary B. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1987 , vol. 109, # 19 p. 5814 - 5820

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Abstract

Abstract: Both direct-irradiation and triplet-sensitized photolyses of 0-naphthoyl azide (BNA) give nitrene-derived products indicative of reaction only from the singlet state of P- naphthoylnitrene (BNN). The triplet nitrene is not detected in chemical trapping or ...