Tetrahedron Letters

Solid state photodimerization of psoralen derivatives

C Courseille, M Hospital, JL Décout, J Lhomme

Index: Courseille, Christian; Hospital, Michel; Decout, Jean-Luc; Lhomme, Jean Tetrahedron Letters, 1990 , vol. 31, # 35 p. 5031 - 5034

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Abstract

Abstract Stereoselective reversible photodimerization of 8-alkoxypsoralen 1-thymine derivatives occurs in the solid state with topochemical control, the reactive pyrone double bonds of the monomers being favourably oriented in the crystal to produce only the Full-size image (< 1 K)