Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan

Aryl rearrangement on the photolysis of 2-aryl-2-ethoxy-2-phenylethyl cobaloxime.

M Tada, K Inoue, M Okabe

Index: Tada; Inoue; Okabe Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1983 , vol. 56, # 5 p. 1420 - 1423

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Abstract

The photolysis of 2-aryl-2-ethoxy-2-phenylethyl cobaloxime followed by hydrolysis gave two kinds of substituted 1, 2-diphenylethanones arising via phenyl or substituted-phenyl migration. The substituent effect on the aryl rearrangement is similar to that on the reported neophyl rearrangement, and the rearrangement takes place by a radical mechanism without the deep involvement of cobaloxime (II).