The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Minor products in photoreactions of. alpha.-diketones with arenes. Abstraction of hydroxylic hydrogen by triplet carbonyl

MB Rubin, AL Gutman

Index: Rubin, Mordecai B.; Gutman, Arie L. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1986 , vol. 51, # 13 p. 2511 - 2515

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Abstract

Photochemical reactions of cyclic saturated a-diketones in toluene or p-xylene produce 1: l adducts as major products and smaller amounts of reduced diketone and bibenzyls, as expected from previous work. In addition, reaction of BOD gave 2% of the decarbonylation product, p-methylbenzyl cyclohexyl ketone; reaction of camphorquinone gave a mixture of decarbonylation products (10% total) including saturated and unsaturated monoketones. ...