Location
Davis 117
Start Date
30-4-2015 9:00 AM
End Date
30-4-2015 10:55 AM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
A new photochemical route to dimethylvinylidene, a highly reactive, short-lived carbene intermediate featuring a neutral divalent carbon, has been synthesized. Upon photolysis with UV light (~315 to 400 nm), the precursor releases the carbene that can be then trapped by an alkene. Efforts to determine the lifetime of this carbene and the rate at which reacts with alkenes, using time resolved laser flash photolysis techniques, are currently underway. This method of generating vinylidenes opens up a novel, safe and viable avenue to analogous intermediates which are considerably difficult to generate by other means.
Faculty Sponsor
Suzi Cole
CLAS Field of Study
Natural Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1124
Let there be light! Photochemical Generation of Dimethylvinylidene
Davis 117
A new photochemical route to dimethylvinylidene, a highly reactive, short-lived carbene intermediate featuring a neutral divalent carbon, has been synthesized. Upon photolysis with UV light (~315 to 400 nm), the precursor releases the carbene that can be then trapped by an alkene. Efforts to determine the lifetime of this carbene and the rate at which reacts with alkenes, using time resolved laser flash photolysis techniques, are currently underway. This method of generating vinylidenes opens up a novel, safe and viable avenue to analogous intermediates which are considerably difficult to generate by other means.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/403