The photoinduced dehydrochlorination, in methanol, of N-chloro-N-alkyl amides with one substituent at the a pasition to nitrogen gave good yields of N-(a-methoxyalkyl) amides and the parent amides as secondary products. N-Chloro amides disubstituted at the a position gave mostly parent amides. In most cases no products resulting from 1, 5 hydrogen transfer of amidyl radicals were observed. The quantum yields of decomposition of N-chloro-N- ...
![N-[(pentanoylamino)methyl]pentanamide Structure](https://image.chemsrc.com/caspic/351/87740-47-4.png)
