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The ground state of dioxygen is a triplet, paramagnetic because of two parallel electronic spins. There are two low-lying metastable electronically excited singlet states of dioxygen (with spectroscopic notations 1Σ+ g and 1Δg; see Fig. 4–1). Of these, only the reactive 1Δg state is believed to play a role in reactions in solution, and it is this state that will be implied by the term “singlet oxygen” or “singlet O2” throughout this chapter. The higher-energy 1Σ+ g state is deactivated to the 1Δg so rapidly that it has no chance to react. Singlet oxygen lies approximately 22.5 kcal /mol above the ground state; this energy corresponds to an infrared wavelength of 1270 nm, where it emits light. This chapter gives a brief survey of the sources, properties, chemistry, kinetics, and some methods of detection and characterization of singlet oxygen. Numerous reviews on various aspects of singlet oxygen chemistry have appeared and should be consulted for more complete references to this active field (Frimer, 1985; Gorman and Rodgers, 1989; Kanofsky, 1988b; Wasserman and Murray, 1979).
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Foote, C.S., Clennan, E.L. (1995). Properties and Reactions of Singlet Dioxygen. In: Foote, C.S., Valentine, J.S., Greenberg, A., Liebman, J.F. (eds) Active Oxygen in Chemistry. Structure Energetics and Reactivity in Chemistry Series (SEARCH Series), vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0874-7_4
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Online ISBN: 978-94-007-0874-7
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive