OPN and SPN: Small Molecules with Great Potential

摘要

Matrix isolation is now a well-established method for the characterization of highly reactive species and reaction intermediates. Most importantly, it paves the way for later work on a preparative scale. Willner and co-workers very recently reported on the preparation of the molecule OPN in an inert-gas matrix by photolysis of the precursor compound OP(N3)3. OPN could be photoisomerized rever-sibly to ONP [Eq. (1)].