Issue 9, 1978

Photochemical and thermal reactions of heterocycles. Part 2. Photolysis of 2,3-diphenylnaphthoquinone 2,3-epoxide: trapping of a cyclic carbonyl ylide and photoisomerisation

Abstract

Photolysis of 2,3-diphenylnaphthoquinone epoxide (1) caused epoxy-carbon–carbon bond cleavage to form a cyclic carbonyl ylide (4), which was trapped by dipolarophiles. The norbornadiene primary adduct (3) underwent further photochemical isomerisation, via methylenephthalide derivatives (5), to spiro[oxetan-phthalide] derivatives (7), which reverted thermally to methylenephthalides (5). Thermal fragmentation of an oxabicycloheptadiene adduct (18a) gave a formal acetylene adduct (11) and a furan (21). Carbon-13 n.m.r. spectroscopy was useful in establishing the structures of the products. Photolysis of the epoxide (1) in the absence of a dipolarophile gave 3-(α-benzoylbenzylidene)phthalides (24).

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J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1978, 1029-1036

Photochemical and thermal reactions of heterocycles. Part 2. Photolysis of 2,3-diphenylnaphthoquinone 2,3-epoxide: trapping of a cyclic carbonyl ylide and photoisomerisation

H. Kato, H. Tezuka, K. Yamaguchi, K. Nowada and Y. Nakamura, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1978, 1029 DOI: 10.1039/P19780001029

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