SENSITIZED PHOTO-OXYGENATION OF ACYCLIC CONJUGATED DIENES

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4020(01)96586-X

Sensitized photo-oxygenation of a wide variety of acyclic 1,3-dienes was investigated.The 1,4-cycloaddition of singlet oxygen to acyclic conjugated dienes was closely related to the thermal Diels-Alder reaction in stereospecificity, and steric and electronic effects of substituents.Reactivity order of singlet oxygen toward conjugated dienes and isolated C-C double bonds was exhibited as follows: trisubstituted monoolefins > 2-substituted 1,3-dienes > disubstituted mono-olefins.