Workers at Ciba-Geigy and elsewhere have used the ability of 1 to form [2+ 21 photocycloadducts to prepare herbicides, fungicides, and polymers useful for adhesives, coatings, photoresists, and photoimaging formulation^.^ We now report the preparation and characterization of some novel photocycloadducts with unsaturated acids, esters, and allyl derivatives and our evaluation of some of these adducts as monomers for condensation ...