Claisen photo

These ideas will be discussed in the following subsections, where most of the attention will be devoted to the mechanistic smdies with aromatic esters, which have been the subject of an overwhelming majority of the research efforts. Nevertheless, the same reaction mechanism has been shown to be valid for the PFR of anilides, thioesters, sulfonates, and so forth. Furthermore, it is also applicable to the photo-Claisen rearrangement [i.e. the migration of alkyl (or allyl, benzyl, aryl,)] groups of aromatic ethers to the ortho and para positions of the aromatic ring [21,22]. 

A unified theoretical explanation using molecular orbital theory has been proposed. Grimme [65] investigated the PFR of phenyl acetate as well as the photo-Claisen rearrangement of allyl phenyl ether and the 3-cleavage of para-substituted phenoxyacetones. A unified description of the three reactions has been invoked according to MNDOC-CI and AMl/AMl-HE calculations. No matter what ex-... 

Irradiation of the a-cyclodextrin complexes of m-alkoxyphenyl allyl ethers (35) gave only a single ortho isomer in each case, although in solution each ether gave two ortho and one para isomers via photo-Claisen rearrangements (Schemes 17 and 18) [156,157], This can be attributed to the difference in free volume available within the cavity near the two ortho centers and to the difference in accessibility of the radical fragments to them. In support of this conclusion, irradiation of the /1-cyclodextrin complexes of 35 results in no... 

The reactivities of 9-W-phenylaminoalkyl)phenanthrenes 421 and 424 depend on the length of methylene chain. In the case of n = 1, photo-Claisen-type rearranged products 422 are mainly produced [467] (Scheme 126). 9-Methylene-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene 423 is exclusively obtained in a 60% isolated yield... 

Ramamurthy and coworkers studied the photo-Fries rearrangement of phenyl acetate and phenyl benzoate and photo-Claisen rearrangement of allyl phenyl ether (Fig. 34) included in two types of zeolite (faujasites X and Y and pen-tasils ZSM-5 andZSM-11) [192], The photolysis was performed with the zeolite slurry in either hexane or iso-octane. One of the most remarkable observations is that the product distribution is altered within zeolites from that in isotropic solvent. Furthermore, while in solution, nearly a 1 1 mixture of ortho and para isomers 40 and 41 (Fig. 34) was obtained, within zeolites one is able to direct the photoreaction selectively toward either the ortho or the para products by conducting the reaction either within faujasites or pentasils, respectively (Fig. 34). 

Figure 34 Photo-Fries rearrangement of phenyl acetate and phenyl benzoate, and photo-Claisen reaction of allyl phenyl ether in solution and within zeolites.

A number of other, but minor primary photoproducts was also found, among them the products expected from a radical (photo-Claisen) rearrangement and from photohydrolysis of the ortho chlorine 2- and 4-chlorophenol were detected too, but their formation remained unexplained. The photodegradation quantum yield of dichlorprop did not depend on pH and was 50 times smaller than that of the anionic form of the related monohalo-genated compound mecoprop (see above) [77]. This is another example of the marked influence of the pattern of ring halogen substitution on the course and on the efficiency of photodegradation. 

The reactions analyzed here (and used to generate the initial radical pairs in the polymer media) can be separated into two distinct categories those that involve lysis of one molecule into two radicals (such as the Norrish Type 1, photo-Fries, and photo-Claisen reactions) and those that require bimolecular processes in which a part of one molecule is abstracted by another (e.g., H-atom abstractions from a phenol or an amine by the lowest energy triplet state of benzophenone). Each reaction produces either singlet or triplet radical pairs and, thus, allows the influence of spin multiplicity on radical pair reaction rates to be separated somewhat from other influences, such as the natures of the polymer matrices and the radical structures. Different methods for extracting rates of processes for the radicals from both static and dynamic data will be discussed. ... 

The corresponding esters are much less informative because the centers of chirality in their acyl radicals are structurally protected from racemization like that experienced by translational or rotational motions of prochiral alkyl radicals. In addition, the decarbonylated radicals derived from them are formed long after their acyl precursors have moved to orientations with respect to their aryloxy partners that result in a loss of the memory of their host stereochemistry within a cage see above. Thus, of the Claisen-like photoproducts from irradiation of (7 )-lb, only the BzON (i.e., 3b) retains a measurable amount of optical activity even in the solid phases of long -aIkane. However, in polyethylene hlms, all of the Claisen products from irradiation of (7 )-lb—2-BN, 4-BN, and 3b—exhibit signihcant ee values. In the same media, the photo-Fries products from lb retain virtually all of the enantiomeric purity of the... 

The enone (130), the pesticide Coumaphos, undergoes regioselective dimerization on irradiation at wavelengths > 313 nm. The product was identified as the dimer (131). Irradiation of the furocoumarin, Imperatorin (132), in methanol affords a low yield of the (2t2)-dimer (133). This product is accompanied by the dealkylated compound (134) and the rearrangement product (135). This last compound is formed by a photo-Claisen rearrangement. The influence of solvent was studied and the dimer was obtained only in methanol. The other two products were formed in a variety of polar and non polar solvents. In any solvent the dealkylated compound (135. was the main product. ... 

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