Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan

Mechanism of the photooxidation of and photoepoxidation with cyclic α-diketones

Y Sawaki

Index: Sawaki Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1983 , vol. 56, # 11 p. 3464 - 3470

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Abstract

The photooxidation of phenanthrenequinone (PhQ) under oxygen afforded diphenic acid and its peroxy acid, while acenaphthenequinone (AcQ) predominantly yielded 1, 8- naphthalenedicarboxylic anhydride. The photolysis of PhQ or AcQ in the presence of olefins afforded predominantly 1: 1 cycloadducts and the photoepoxidation was a very minor one accompanying significant amount of C–C cleavage of olefins. These results show that the ...