Chemiluminescence of the labile 1,2-dioxetanes and epoxides produced in the oxidation of N-acetylated dihydro- and tetrahydropyrazines by singlet oxygen, dimethyldioxirane, and m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/ja00143a011

The oxidation of the N-acylated pyrazine derivatives 1a,b gave the pyrazine-type dioxetanes 2a,b, which for the first time were isolated and characterized. The halflives of the thermal decomposition of these labile dioxetanes at 20°C were determined by ch