The Journal of Organic Chemistry

The Photochemical Reactions of Alkyl Phenylglyoxalates in Alcohols1

ES Huyser, DC Neckers

Index: Huyser,E.S.; Neckers,D.C. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1964 , vol. 29, p. 276 - 278

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Citation Number: 55

Abstract

The primary and secondary alkyl esters of phenylglyoxalic acid undergo a photochemical reaction in alcohols in which the phenylglyoxalate is reduced to the mandelate ester of the solvent alcohol and the alcohol moiety of the phenylglyoxalate ester is oxidized. A mechanism involving an intramolecular hydrogen abstraction reaction in the photochemically excited phenylglyoxalate ester is suggested to account for the products of ...