Alkyl aryl ketones were found to sensitize the decomposition of t-butyl chloride in cyclohexane solution. The mechanism for the decomposition involved some degree of charge-transfer complex formation and the lowest excited triplet state of the alkyl aryl ketone was clearly implicated as the sensitizing species.
A. Harriman, B. W. Rockett and W. R. Poyner, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 1974, 485 DOI: 10.1039/P29740000485
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