The 9.24 eV ionization energy often quoted in photoelectron spectroscopic investigations of benzyne is not due to benzyne 1 but to benzene, C6H6. The 8.9 eV ionization is not due to benzyne either but to cyclopentadienylideneketene 12 when a 10.2 eV band is also present, or to biphenylene 5 when a 7.6 eV band is simultaneously present. Cyclopentadienylideneketene 12 has been generated by flash vacuum thermolysis of four different precursors, which permit a linking of infrared, mass, and photoelectron spectroscopic observations.
An aza‐ortho‐xylylene system is produced by thermal degradation of N‐alkylbenzosultam, which can be directly studied by coupling the system to a UV/photoelectron spectrometer. These thermodynamically unstable xylylene derivatives rearrange to give aldimine by a [1,5] hydrogen shift.
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