Mechanism of the photomethylation of phenanthro[9,10-d]oxazole in ethanol
Abstract
A 14C-labelling experiment has been performed in order to elucidate the mechanism of the photomethylation of phenanthro[9,10-d]oxazole (1) in ethanol; the result supports a mechanism involving an N-(1-hydroxyethyl)oxazoline intermediate (7).