Electron and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic investigation of anthracene oxidation

The work reports a method for monitoring anthracene radical-mediated oxidation reactions using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. The formation of anthracene dimer product was well-defined using 1H-NMR and 1H–1H correlation spectroscopy (COSY). Unrestricted 3-21G/B3LYP DFT was used...

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Autores principales: Mohamed A. Morsy, Abdel-Nasser M. Kawde, Muhammad Kamran, Thomas F. Garrison, Wissam Iali, Salman S. Alharthi
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Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/aaadf9612b4141c09a5804e9a259cac0
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Sumario:The work reports a method for monitoring anthracene radical-mediated oxidation reactions using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. The formation of anthracene dimer product was well-defined using 1H-NMR and 1H–1H correlation spectroscopy (COSY). Unrestricted 3-21G/B3LYP DFT was used to estimate radical hyperfine spacing (hfs), then to identify the characteristic EPR-spin transitions of anthracene radical intermediate. A detailed investigation of an anthracene oxidation reaction and its possible reaction mechanism in concentrated sulphuric acid is conducted as a model system for polyaromatic hydrocarbons. Peak-to-peak (p2p) intensities of selected EPR-spectral lines were used to evaluate anthracene's oxidation kinetic model. The findings showed that radical intermediate formation is a unimolecular autocatalytic process, dimerization is a pseudo-zero-order reaction, and the latter is the rate-determining step with a half-life of 48 ± 2 min at 25.0 °C.