A study of 2-azido-3,5-dichlorobiphenyl by nano- and picosecond laser flash photolysis and computational methods.

The dynamics of singlet 3,5-dichloro-2-biphenylnitrene and the products of its rearrangement were monitored by pico- and nanosecond laser flash photolysis and the results were consistent with the predictions of DFT and ab initio molecular orbital calculations.