Effects of heteroatom substituents on the properties of 1, 2-dioxetanes

RS Handley, AJ Stern, AP Schaap

Index: Handley, Richard S.; Stern, Alan J.; Schaap, A. Paul Tetrahedron Letters, 1985 , vol. 26, # 27 p. 3183 - 3186

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Abstract

Abstract Nitrogen and sulfur-substituted dioxetanes exhibit dramatically lower activation energies for decomposition compared to the corresponding oxygen-bearing dioxetane. A mechanism involving intramolecular electron-transfer processes is proposed for the cleavage of these unstable dioxetanes.