PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF FURANS. PHOTOCHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF SOME SUBSTITUTED 2-PHENYL-3-FURYLACRYLIC ACIDS

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0040-4020(82)85121-1

A number of new substituted 2-phenyl-3-furylacrylic acids (1-14) were synthesized by modified Perkin reaction and separated into their E- and Z-isomers and identified by spectroscopic methods.E-isomers were UV-irradiated under aerobic conditions to give s