Amines, photoaddition reactions arenes

The synthetic and mechanistic aspects of photoaddition reactions of amines with excited states of arenes and aryl olefins have been extensively investigated [10-12, 277],... 

Topics of relevance to the content of this chapter which have been reviewed during the year include photoactive [2]rotaxanes and [2]catenanes, photochemical synthesis of macrocycles, phototransformations of phthalimido amino acids, photoaddition reactions of amines with aryl alkenes and arenes, photoreactions between arenenitriles and benzylic donors, photostability of drugs, polycyclic heterocycles from aryl- and heteroaryl-2-propenoic acids, photoreactions of pyrroles, photoamination reactions in heterocyclic synthesis, switching of chirality by light, photochromic diarylethenes for molecular photoionics and solid state bimolecular photoreactions. 

The initial report of intramolecular benzene-tertiary amine addition by Bryce-Smith et al. might have been expected to trigger a flurry of research activity similar to that generated by intramolecular benzene-olefin photoaddition reactions. However. a detailed account of the formation of adducts 3 and 4, including isolated yields and complete structural characterization, never appeared. Neither have additional examples of arene-tertiary amine addition reactions been reported. 

PHOTOADDITION REACTIONS OF AMINES WITH ARYL OLEFINS AND ARENES Frederick D. Lewis... 

Lewis, F.D., Photoaddition reactions of amines with aryl olefins and arenes, in Advances in Electron Transfer Chemistry, Vol. 5, Mariano, P.S., Ed., JAl Press Inc., Greenwich, CT, 1996, p. 1. 

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