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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2009 Aug 19;131(32):11535–11547. doi: 10.1021/ja902224m

Table 3.

Vertical transitions and absorption properties of possible reactive species derived from the irradiation of azide 5 as calculated at the TD-B3LYP/TZVP level of theory.

Species λmax (nm) Oscillator Strength (f)
Closed-shell singlet nitrene 340 0.0065
Open-shell singlet nitrene 483 0.0323
Triplet nitrene 426 0.0828
Nitrogen radical 447 0.0978
Nitrenium ion 10 441 0.0019
Adduct 13 360 0.0443
Adduct 14 409 0.0524