Nanosecond Laser Flash Photolysis Studies of the Photochemistry of

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Organometallics 1996, 15, 3732-3736

Nanosecond Laser Flash Photolysis Studies of the Photochemistry of Dimesitylgermylene Precursors Nicholas P. Toltl and William J. Leigh* Department of Chemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M1

Gerlinde M. Kollegger, William G. Stibbs, and Kim M. Baines* Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 Received May 6, 1996X

The absolute rate constants for quenching of the transient absorption assigned to dimesitylgermylene with oxygen, triethylsilane, ethanol, and 1-bromohexane have been determined by nanosecond laser flash photolysis to be (7.3 ( 0.8) × 106, (1.1 ( 0.1) × 105,