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Photochemistry of alkyl halides—VII: Cyclopropanation of alkenes

PJ Kropp, NJ Pienta, JA Sawyer, RP Polniaszek

Index: Kropp, Paul J.; Pienta, Norbert J.; Sawyer, Joy A.; Polniaszek, Richard P. Tetrahedron, 1981 , vol. 37, # 19 p. 3229 - 3236

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Abstract

The previously observed cyclopropaoation of alkenes by irradiation of diiodomethane (I) in their presence has been studied in more detail and found to be a synthetically useful procedure which is significantly less subject to steric effects than the traditional Simmons- Smith method. The results from photocyclopropanation of a variety of alkenes are summarized in Tables 1 and 3–4. In a number of cases the photochemical procedure ...