This article reports a study of excited-state hydroxide ion release from a model xanthenol photobase, XanOH. The driving force for the reaction was tuned using solvent mixtures with varying water/acetonitrile ratios, and the kinetics of the reaction was monitored using ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy. The intrinsic barrier for the heterolysis was evaluated using Marcus and bond-energy bond-order (BEBO) models. The obtained value (ΔG(o)(#) = 10.17-10.80 kcal/mol) is significantly higher than the intrinsic barriers found for the proton release from previously studied photoacids. These results were discussed in terms of the difference in structures of solvated H(+) and OH(-) ions.
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