Photochemical chlorodecarboxylation via an electron transfer mechanism

K Okada, K Okamoto, M Oda

Index: Okada, Keiji; Okamoto, Kazushige; Oda, Masaji Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1989 , # 21 p. 1636 - 1637

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Abstract

A new method of chlorodecarboxylation of carboxylic acids via N-acyloxyphthalimides is developed; the reaction proceeds upon irradiation of N-acyloxyphthalimides in the presence of 1, 4-diazabicyclo [2.2. 2] octane in ButOH–CCl4–H2O (53: 42: 5 v/v) in moderate to high yields.