Product Selection through Photon Flux: Laser??Specific Lactone Synthesis

…, AJ Orr??Ewing, KI Booker??Milburn

Index: Roscini, Claudio; Davies, David M. E.; Berry, Malcolm; Orr-Ewing, Andrew J.; Booker-Milburn, Kevin I. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2008 , vol. 47, # 12 p. 2283 - 2286

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Abstract

In ground-state chemistry, such as metal-catalyzed processes, exquisite levels of reaction control can often be achieved by subtle changes to the catalyst or reaction conditions. In photochemistry the situation is much more complex, as fates of excited states are governed by competing pathways for reaction, coupling to other electronic states, possible further photoexcitation, and relaxation to the ground state; thus, the outcomes of such processes ...