Photooxygenation chiral 1,2-dihydronaphthalenes

Chiral catalysts, asymmetric metal-catalyzed suHoxidations, 478-85 Chiral 1,2-dihydronaphthalenes, photooxygenation, 265-6 Chiral dioxetanes, stereoselective synthesis, 1173-8... 

The photooxygenation of chiral l,2-dihydronaphthalene-2-carboxylic acids leads to a mixture of the diendoperoxide (37) and hydroperoxide (38) arising from a double [4+2] cycloaddition and an ene reaction, respectively <96CC2585>. 

Linker, T., Rebien, E, and Toth, G., Highly diastereoselective photooxygenation of chiral 1,2-dihydronaphthalenes evidence for a common intermediate in the ene reaction and the [4 -i- 2] cycloaddition, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 2585, 1996. 

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