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Photoinduced heterolysis of the carbon-oxygen bond in bichromophoric 1-arylmethyloxy-2-pyridones

T Sakurai, K Kubo, S Kojima, T Shoro, H Inoue

Index: Sakurai, Tadamitsu; Kubo, Kanji; Kojima, Shunsuke; Shoro, Takuya; Inoue, Hiroyasu Tetrahedron Letters, 1998 , vol. 39, # 52 p. 9747 - 9750

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Abstract

Irradiation of the title compound having a 9-anthryl (1a) or a 1-pyrenyl group (1b) in methanol was found to give the heterolytic C O bond cleavage products: 1-hydroxy-2- pyridone and arylmethyl methyl ether,(which predominate for the reaction of 1a), along with 2-pyridone, aryl-substituted methanol and aryl aldehyde derived from the homolysis of the N O bond (that mainly occurs in the photolysis of 1b). Spectroscopic analysis of the ...