The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Mechanism of photoisomerization of xanthene to 6H-dibenzo [b, d] pyran in aqueous solution

CG Huang, D Shukla, P Wan

Index: Huang, C.-G.; Shukla, Deepak; Wan, Peter Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1991 , vol. 56, # 18 p. 5437 - 5442

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Abstract

A new photoreaction, the photoisomerization of xanthene (1) to GH-dibem [b, d] pyran (2)(= 70%)(0 0.0035 in 7: 3 H20-CH3CN) in aqueous CH&N solution is reported. In addition to 2, 2-benzylphenol (3)(0= 0.001), 9, 9 '-bixanthyl (4)(0< 0.001), and 2-(2'-hydroxyphenyl) ...