Abstract
A newly developed ultraviolet photoelectron spectrometer – CO2 laser instrument that utilizes a 50-W CW laser as a directed heat source was used to study the vacuum pyrolysis of 4-diazo-3-isochromanone (1). Analysis of the pyrolysate with ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy and photoionization mass spectrometry established that 1 undergoes a facile, unexpected pyrolysis at a laser power level of 26 W yielding N2, CO, and benzocyclobutenone (6). A multistep mechanism beginning with the formation of 4-carbena-3-isochromanone (2), which rearranges to oxaketene 3, can be written for the reaction. If 3 is an intermediate, it must be unusually thermally labile for it readily decarbonylates to 2-carbena-3,4-benzotetrahydrofuran (4). The ring opening of 4 into the ortho-quininoid ketene 5 and the cyclization of 5 into 6 are possible final steps in the conversion of 1 into 6. Keywords: vacuum pyrolysis, 4-diazo-3-isochromanone, HeI ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy.
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