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Steric and stereoelectronic effects in the synthesis and photoisomerization of a dinitrone of 2, 2, 4, 4-tetramethylcyclobutanedione

AJ Boyd, DR Boyd, JF Malone, ND Sharma, K Dev…

Index: Boyd, A. John; Boyd, Derek R.; Malone, John F.; Sharma, Narain, D.; Dev, Kapl; Jennings, W. Brian Tetrahedron Letters, 1984 , vol. 25, # 23 p. 2497 - 2500

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Abstract

Abstract: Peroxyacid oxidation of diimine (1) yielded only the trans isomer of dinitrone-which upon photoisomerization gave dioxaziridines (3a) and (3-d amide (4) as the only isolable isomers; an X-ray crystallographic investigation of (1) shows a considerable geometry distortion.