A new and practical method of decarboxylation: Photosensitized decarboxylation of N-acyloxyphthalimides via electron-transfer mechanism

K Okada, K Okamoto, M Oda

Index: Okada, Keiji; Okamoto, Kazushige; Oda, Masaji Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1988 , vol. 110, # 26 p. 8736 - 8738

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Abstract

12 isolated and fully characterized. Chromatographic analysis of the reaction mixture indicates that 12 is produced immediately upon addition of acetic acid to 11, whereas 8 is produced only upon warming the solution. The conversion of 11 to 12 may be formulated as an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction of the protonated form of 11. The Diels-Alder reaction has been demonstrated with 11 itself, but it is slow in toluene at 110 0C. 6 The ...