Reversible Binding of Oxygen to Aromatic Compounds
- 9 July 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Accounts of Chemical Research
- Vol. 36 (9), 668-675
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ar010086g
Abstract
Many polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are able to trap singlet oxygen 1O2. Some of the endoperoxides, thus obtained, exhibit the exceptional feature of releasing oxygen, frequently in the excited singlet state, under heating or UV irradiation. In this Account, we provide a short summary of the present knowledge on these endoperoxides: preparation and thermal and photolytic decomposition, with a special emphasis on the structural requirements to favor cycloreversion. The profitable use of this property in the development of highly reversible photochromic systems and of specific sources or traps of 1O2 in aqueous media is also described.Keywords
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