Pinacolone photolysis in the presence of phenols leads to phenyl acetates and hydroxy acetophenones; Norrish type I cleavage and subsequent hydrogen abstraction from the phenol by the tert-butyl radical gives rise to acyl–aryloxy radical pairs which recombined constituting an intermolecular photo-Fries rearrangement.
M. C. Jiménez, P. Leal, M. A. Miranda and R. Tormos, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1995, 2009 DOI: 10.1039/C39950002009
To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.
If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.
If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.
Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.
Please wait while we load your content...