Photogeneration of a diene template for surface DielsAlder reactions: Photoenolization of an <i>ortho</i>-methyl-benzophenone-modified Au cluster
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Abstract
A series of monolayer-protected clusters (MPCs) modified with a photoreactive [4-(11-mercaptoundecyl)-phenyl](2-methylphenyl)methanone (1) moiety have been prepared where 1 is co-absorbed to the MPC surface with dodecanethiol, octadecanethiol, or 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid methyl ester. Upon irradiation the MPC-anchored 1 reacts efficiently through its triplet excited states, yielding 1,4-biradicals that collapse to synthetically useful, long-lived photodienol intermediates, which can be efficiently trapped in DielsAlder type chemistry by dienophiles namely, dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD). In all cases the DielsAlder trapping of the dienol occurred efficiently resulting in >60% conversion to the DielsAlder adduct. This indicates that the local environment surrounding 1 did not influence its ability to react via the DielsAlder reaction; however, the reaction could not be taken to completion. The inability to react completely is attributed to 1 binding to distinct sites on the MPC core; there are edge, vertice, and terrace sites. Selective population of these specific sites and the subsequent irradiations show that MPCs with 1 anchored predominantly at edge and vertice sites results in an extent of reaction of 85 ± 3%, whereas selectively populating the terrace sites results in an extent of reaction of 36 ± 2%. These results suggest that 1 anchored to edge and vertice sites is more reactive to the DielsAlder reaction than that involving terrace sites.Key words: monolayer protected cluster, site selective reactivity, DielsAlder, photochemistry.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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