Photoinduced lactonization. A useful but mechanistically complex single electron transfer process

PG Gassman, KJ Bottorff

Index: Gassman, Paul G.; Bottorff, Kyle J. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1987 , vol. 109, # 24 p. 7547 - 7548

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Abstract

A wide variety of biologically active natural products contain the five-membered lactone moiety. Often, these lactones are the products of the anti-Markovnikov intramolecular addition of a carboxylic acid to a carbon-carbon double bond. Synthetically, this type of lactonization can be difficult to achieve. We now report that this transformation can be accomplished in acceptable yields through a mechanistically complex single electron ...