Correlation between selectivity in photochemical cross-cycloaddition and ionization potential of the reacting olefins
Abstract
The selectivity (the ratio of crossadducts to homodimers) in the photochemical [2 + 2] cross-cyclo-addition of a 1 : 1 mixture of several series of (E)-olefins (1) and methyl p-nitro-(E)-cinnamate (2) was found to increase regularly with decreasing ionization potential of (1).