Mechanistic studies of adamantylacetophenones with competing reaction pathways in solution and in the crystalline solid state

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/acs.joc.9b01720

Photochemical reactions in crystals occur under conditions of highly restricted molecular mobility such that only one product is generally obtained, even when there are many others that can be observed in the gas phase or in solution. A series of 2-(1-ada