Intramolecular Photoreactions of 9-Cyanophenanthrene-Linked Arylcyclopropanes.

ABSTRACT: With the aim of developing efficient and useful processes for the preparation of polycyclic organic compounds, intramolecular [3 + 2] photoreactions of 9-cyanophenanthrene-linked arylcyclopropanes were investigated. Photoreactions of 6a,b, which contain respective p-methoxyphenylcyclopropane and phenylcyclopropane moieties, form the intramolecular [3 + 2] photocycloadducts, endo- and exo-7a,b, along with the dihydroisochroman derivatives, cis- and trans-8a,b. The efficiency of the photoreaction of 6a is higher when benzene rather than acetonitrile is used as a solvent. Interestingly, this solvent effect is reversed in the photoreaction of 6b, where the efficiency is higher in acetonitrile than that in benzene. On the basis of the observed effects o

SUBMITTER: Maeda H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6645483 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature