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Photochemical reactivity of aromatic and heteroaromatic nitroderivatives in the presence of arylalkenes

M D'Auria, V Esposito, G Mauriello

Index: D'Auria, Maurizio; Esposito, Vittorio; Mauriello, Giacomo Tetrahedron, 1996 , vol. 52, # 45 p. 14253 - 14272

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Abstract

The irradiation of styrene in the presence of nitroarenes in acetonitrile gives the corresponding nitrones in high yields. However, when 4-methyl-5-ethenylthiazole is used as arylalkene the starting material is converted to a pyrrole analogous of thianthrene. On the contrary, when 1, 1-diphenylethylene is used, the main product observed is benzophenone. Nitrones are obtained only as minor products. An unusual coupling product, where a ...