Alkane functionalisation on a preparative scale by mercury photosensitisation

SH Brown, RH Crabtree

Index: Brown, Stephen H.; Crabtree, Robert H. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1987 , # 13 p. 970 - 971

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Abstract

Alkanes can be functionalised on a multigram scale by mercury photosensitised cross-dimerisation with alcohols, ethers, and silanes. ... A variety of photochemical approaches14 have been success- fully applied to the problem of CH activation.5 Mercury photosensitised reactions of alkanes are well known;- some oxygenated compounds have also been studied .9JO The focus of attention has always been in the problems of kinetics and energy transfer and these ...