Breda, S.Reva, I. D.Lapinski, L.Cristiano, Maria Lurdes SantosFrija, L.Fausto, R.2014-06-092014-06-092006Breda, S.; Reva, I.; Lapinski, L.; Cristiano, M. L. S.; Frija, L.; Fausto, R. Photochemical Ring-Opening and Intramolecular Hydrogen Shift Reactions in Sulfur Analogues of a-Pyrone, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 110, 20, 6415-6425, 2006.1089-5639AUT: MCR00716;http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/4261A combined matrix isolation FTIR and theoretical DFT(B3LYP)/6-311++G(d,p) study of the photochemistry of sulfur analogues of R-pyrone [2H-thiopyran-2-one (TP) and 2H-pyran-2-thione (PT)] was carried out. The vibrational spectra of monomers of the compounds isolated in low-temperature argon matrixes were studied experimentally and assigned completely on the basis of theoretical calculations. UV irradiation (ì > 337 nm) of the studied compounds isolated in low-temperature matrixes results mainly in the ring-opening reaction by means of the cleavage of the R-bond. Other photoprocesses, not involving the R-bond-cleavage step (such as generation of Dewar valence isomer), correspond to the minor reaction channels in both studied compounds. The ring-opening photoreaction in PT represents the first reported case of an R-bond cleavage in a compound with a CdS group attached to a six-membered ring, in which the internal strain practically does not exist, whereas the corresponding reaction in TP (a cleavage of a C-S bond in the R position with respect to a carbonyl group) is now reported for the first time. Following the ring-opening reactions, isomerization processes and intramolecular hydrogen shift reactions were observed, enabling production of TP from PT and vice versa. A detailed study of such processes was undertaken, and kinetical and mechanistical data are presented and discussed.engjournal article2014-06-05http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp061139k