STUDIES ON THE PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTION OF TERTIARY AROMATIC AMINES AND ALIPHATIC HALIDES——STRUCTURE OF THE PRODUCT AND MECHANISM OF THE REACTION

The photochemical reaction of aromatic amines in the presence of aliphatic halides and molecular oxygen were studied. There is a very obvious structural effect of amines on the photoreactions, and the purple products, formed only in the tertiary aromatic amines system, were proved to be amiuium radical salts, e. g. CH—（CH）Cl-by moans of UV, NMR and ESR spectroscopies electronic conductivity and chemical analysis. The purple product can oxidize the adrenaline to adrenochrome. The mechanism of the photoreaction and the oxidation were discussed.