Study 6.18 Synthesis of cage compounds merrilactone A analogue

Case Study 6.18 Synthesis of cage compounds - merrilactone A analogue 

Experimental details 02 An acetonitrile solution of 262 (0.54 him) was purged with nitrogen for 1 h. The solution was then immersed in an ice-bath and irradiated with a 

In general, the n,Jt excited ketones undergo much faster cleavage than those with a lowest 7t,7t excited state, because the O-orbital of a bond being cleaved overlaps with the half-vacant n-orbital on the oxygen atom.905,911,919 The cleavage rate constant of the n,jt triplet excited benzyl phenyl ketone (PhCH2COPh) is, for example, more than three orders 

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