Photochemistry of phosphate esters: an efficient method for the generation of electrophiles

RS Givens, B Matuszewski, PS Athey…

Index: Givens, Richard S.; Matuszewski, Bogdan; Athey, Phillip S.; Robert Stoner Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1990 , vol. 112, # 16 p. 6016 - 6021

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Abstract

Abstract: The photochemical cleavage of benzyl diethyl phosphates, la-g, has been examined in tert-butyl alcohol, which produces the corresponding benzyl lert-butyl ether as the major solvolysis product upon direct irradiation. The multiplicity of the reactive excited state has been established as the singlet state. Evidence favoring an intermediate benzyl cation-phosphate ion pair formed from photofragmentation includes oxygen-I 8 scrambling ...