Selectivity in the photodimerization of 6-alkylcoumarins

…, D Scheller, O Rademacher, T Wolff

Index: Yu, Xiuling; Scheller, Dieter; Rademacher, Otto; Wolff, Thomas Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2003 , vol. 68, # 19 p. 7386 - 7399

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Abstract

Coumarin and 6-alkylcoumarins (alkyl= C1 to C16) were photodimerized in homogeneous solvents differing in polarity and in aqueous micellar solutions. The four possible photodimers, syn head-to-head (hh), anti head-to-head, syn head-to-tail (ht), and anti head- to-tail, were identified through a combination of X-ray analysis and NMR spectroscopy. In 6- methylcoumarin the concentration-corrected dimerization (quantum) yield increases with ...