Tetrahedron Letters

Tetrahedron Letters, Vol. 24, No. 11, pp 1193-1196, 1983 OO4O-4O39/83/111193-O4 $ O3. OO/O Printed in Great Britain© 1983 Pergamon Press Ltd.

BL Feringa, RJ Butselaar

Index: Feringa, Ben L.; Butselaar, Robert J. Tetrahedron Letters, 1983 , vol. 24, # 11 p. 1193 - 1196

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Abstract

The a-hydroperoxycarbonyl structure plays a central role in important metabolic processes such as dioxygenase (eg phenol ring cleavage) 1-3 and indole-3-acetic acid decarboxylation mechanisms4 and bioluminescence1, 2, 4, 5 (luciferin oxygenation). The base-catalysed decomposition of several a-hydroperoxyketones has been studied in detail and the a-cleavage has been explained by a predominant acyclic carbonyl addition ...