Photoelimination of nitrogen from cyclic azo alkanes. An exceptionally labile and an exceptionally reluctant diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octene

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)74560-6

The photochemistry of an unusually reactive diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octene has been found to be extremely solvent and temperature dependent; an exceptionally stable diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octene has been found to undergo a novel fragmentation as a result of vapor phase photoexcitation.