Mechanistic aspects of the oxidative and reductive fragmentation of n-nitrosoamines: a new method for generating nitrenium cations, amide anions, and aminyl radicals
- Piech, Krzysztof Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Bally, Thomas Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Sikora, Adam Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
- Marcinek, Andrzej Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
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01.03.2007
Published in:
- Journal of the American Chemical Society. - 2007, vol. 129, no. 11, p. 3211 -3217
English
A new method for investigating the mechanisms of nitric oxide release from NO donors under oxidative and reductive conditions is presented. Based on the fragmentation of N-nitrosoamines, it allows generation and spectroscopic characterization of nitrenium cations, amide anions, and aminyl radicals. X-irradiation of N-nitroso-N,N-diphenylamine 1 in Ar matrices at 10 K is found to yield the corresponding radical ions, which apparently undergo spontaneous loss of NO° under the conditions of this experiment (1°⁺ seems to survive partially intact, but not 1°⁻). One-electron reduction or oxidation of 1 is observed upon doping of the Ar matrix with DABCO, an efficient hole scavenger, or CH₂Cl₂, an electron scavenger, respectively. The resulting diphenylnitrenium cation, 2⁺, and the diphenylamide anion, 2⁻, were characterized by their full UV-vis and mid-IR spectra. The best spectra of 2⁺ and 2⁻ were obtained if 1 was homolytically photodissociated to diphenylaminyl radical 2° and NO° prior to ionization. 2⁺ and 2⁻ are bleached on irradiation at <340 nm to form 2° or, in part, 1. DFT and CCSD quantum chemical calculations predict that the dissociation of 1°⁺ and 1°⁻ is slightly endothermic, a tendency which is partially reversed if one allows for complexation of the resulting 2⁺ (and, presumably, 2⁻) with NO°. The method described in this work should prove generally applicable to the generation and study of nitrenium cations and amide anions R₂N+/- under matrix and ambient conditions (i.e., in solution).
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Chimie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Chemistry
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- License undefined
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- RERO DOC 8845
- DOI 10.1021/ja066855e
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/300543
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