Abstract

Although aryl(trifluoromethyl)diazirines have achieved great popularity in photoaffinity labeling applications, the properties of the corresponding carbenes have not been as widely explored. Here, low-temperature matrix-isolation spectroscopy and reactivity studies indicate that in contrast to m-methoxyphenyl(trifluoromethyl)carbene and most known aryl(CF(3))carbenes, the para isomer is a ground-state singlet rather than triplet. DFT calculations support these results as well as the notion that the p-CH(3)O group stabilizes the singlet carbene via resonance. These results may have relevance to the wide range of substituted aryl(CF(3))diazirines in photoaffinity applications.

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