Photoinduced and thermally induced rearrangements in a thianthrenium salt system

FD Saeva

Index: Saeva, Franklin D. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1987 , p. 37 - 39

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Abstract

A low-lying σ* level localized on a sulphur-carbon moiety in p-cyanobenzylthianthrenium trifluoromethanesulphonate allows facile photoinduced molecular rearrangements to occur via an in-cage fragmentation–recombination mechanism involving cation-radical–radical intermediates.