I. Morino, M. Wakasa, H. Hayashi
May 10, 2002
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Abstract
The hydrogen abstraction reaction of triplet 4-methoxybenzophenone with thiophenol at 265 K has been studied with a newly developed picosecond laser flash photolysis apparatus under magnetic fields of 0–1.7 T. The decay rate constant of the radical pair generated was found to increase from 3.42 × 109 s−1 to 4.15 × 109 s−1 with increasing the magnetic field from 0 to 1.7 T. The observed magnetic field effects can be explained by the Δg mechanism. Using the simple kinetics model with the Δg mechanism, the rate constant of the escape process from the pair (k esc) and two rate constants for the T-S spin conversion process (k T-S) at 0 and 1.7 T were found to be 1.97 × 109 s−1, 1.45 × 109 s−1, and 2.12 × 109 s−1, respectively. From the magnetic field dependence on k T-S, the difference in the g values of the 4-methoxybenzophenone ketyl and phenylthiyl radicals was estimated to be 0.0087.