The first examples of acid catalysed ipso photosubstitution of alkoxy-substituted benzenes by solvent water, with observed quantum yields in the range 0.03–0.14 are reported, the mechanism of which is believed to involve initial photoprotonation of the aromatic ring in the excited singlet state.
P. Wan and P. Wu, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1990, 822 DOI: 10.1039/C39900000822
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