Photoinduced Intramolecular Aromatic Nucleophilic Substitution (the Photo-Smiles Rearrangement) in Amino Ethers

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/bcsj.54.462

Intramolecular rearrangement was induced by light as well as base in a homologous series of 1-(p-nitrophenoxy)-ω-anilinoalkanes, p-O2NC6H4O(CH2)nNHPh(n=2-5), yielding N-(p-nitrophenyl)-ω-anilino-1-alkanols, p-O2NC6H4N(Ph)(CH2)nOH.The reaction rate in acet