Intramolecular photochemical cycloadditions of N-alkenyloxycarbonylindoles and N-alkenoylindoles
Abstract
Ultraviolet light irradiation of N-alkenoylindoles affords intramolecular [2 + 2] photocycloadducts with regiochemistry opposite to that obtained in the corresponding intermolecular reaction; in contrast, N-alkenyloxycarbonylindoles appear to be relatively photostable because they are frozen in an unreactive conformation for the duration of the excited state lifetime.
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