The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Photoinitiated additions of ketones to bicyclo [1.1. 0] butanes. The existence of diverse reaction pathways

PG Gassman, GT Carroll

Index: Gassman, Paul G.; Carroll, Glenn T. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1984 , vol. 49, # 11 p. 2074 - 2076

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Abstract

Summary: A radical chain process has been established for the addition of a series of ketones across the Cl-C3 bond of bicyclo [ll 0] butane and its methylated derivatives. For certain ketones, capture of an acyl radical intermediate, generated in a Norrish type I cleavage of the ketone, competes effectively with the radical chain process.