WAVELENGTH-DEPENDENT PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF 2,3-DIMETHYL-2-BUTENE AND 2-OCTENE IN SOLUTION

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/cl.1983.1665

Direct irradiations of the title compounds were performed at 185, >200, >220, and 228 nm in hydrocarbon solvents.The evident wavelength dependence of the product distributions observed is of importance in specifying the excited state involved in the formation of each photoproduct, and suggests that more than two excited singlet states of an alkene undergo distinctly different photoreactions rather than suffer mutual conversions between the states.