Retrosynthetic photochemistry

Photochemistry is a very promising tool in many applications indeed  

This short chapter may serve as a problem-solving list of target structures, which can be synthesized by photochemical means. The information is sorted according to structural types of products and is limited to the reactions described in Chapter 6. A double arrow (= ) indicates the retrosynthetic direction,1560 starting from the product and showing the most important photochemical step in the course of the reaction. This does not necessarily mean that we can choose the corresponding procedure under all circumstances. Potential 

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The following list of potential obstacles may prompt the reader to go back over the preceding chapters, which provide sufficient details to handle most of the photochemical procedures successfully. The obstacles are listed here not to discourage, but, on the contrary, to accentuate that careful preparation for the experiment and consideration of possible difficulties will help in achieving fast and efficient photoprocesses, which selectively produce the desired compounds in very high chemical yields. Thus we should be aware that  

0 1°2 3o sens Singlet oxygen formation 6.7.2 and endoperoxide formation 

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Chapter 7, on retrosynthetic photochemistry, is a graphical compilation of reaction schemes, listed according to the target structures, which can be synthesized by the photochemical reactions described in Chapter 6. 

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