Abstract
Photoinduced Wolff rearrangements were studied by femtosecond time-resolved UV-vis and IR transient absorption spectroscopy. For BpCN2COCH3 in acetonitrile the IR data indicate the presence of at least two mechanisms of ketene formation. The first process is fast proceeding in either 1BpCN2COCH3*, or in a hot carbene, or in both species, while the second is slow proceeding through the intermediacy of a relaxed carbene. The slow time constant of the ketene formation dynamics obtained by ultrafast IR (700 ps) spectroscopy agrees with the relaxed carbene decay of 800 +/- 100 ps obtained by UV-vis absorption spectroscopy.
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