17250-77-0Relevant articles and documents
Control of transient aluminum-aminals for masking and unmasking reactive carbonyl groups
Barrios, Francis J.,Springer, Brannon C.,Colby, David A.
supporting information, p. 3082 - 3085 (2013/07/26)
A new reagent, the dimethylaluminum N,O-dimethylhydroxylamine complex, is effective at masking reactive carbonyl groups in situ from nucleophilic addition. This reagent allows chemoselective addition of reducing reagents, Grignard reagents, organolithiums, Wittig reagents, and enolates into substrates with multiple carbonyl groups. Moreover, the trapped carbonyl group, a stable aminal, can be unmasked in situ for additional synthetic manipulations.
Photochemical behavior of cyclopropyl-substituted benzophenones and valerophenones
Creary, Xavier,Hinckley, Jenifer,Kraft, Casey,Genereux, Madeleine
experimental part, p. 2062 - 2071 (2011/05/28)
p-Cyclopropylbenzophenone, 20, gives no photoreduction when irradiated in i-PrOH solvent. This is a general phenomenon and a number of cyclopropyl-substituted benzophenones, including 4-(endo-6-bicyclo[3.1.0]hexyl) benzophenone, 19, 4-(cis-2,3-dimethylcyclopropyl)benzophenone, 21, 4-(cis-2-vinylcyclopropyl)benzophenone, 22, and 4-(endo-7-bicyclo[4.1.0]hept-2- enyl)benzophenone, 23, also fail to undergo photoreduction. Instead these latter compounds undergo cis-trans isomerization when irradiated. A mechanism involving formation of an (n, π*) triplet, which subsequently fragments the strained cyclopropane bond to give a lower energy and unreactive open triplet, has been suggested. p-Cyclopropylvalerophenone, 25, and p-(endo-6-bicyclo[3.1.0]hexyl)valerophenone, 24, also undergo photoisomerization and fail to undergo the Norrish Type II photoreactions. Triplet energy dissipation by fragmentation of the cyclopropane bond is also proposed. In addition to the Norrish Type II reaction, p-cyclobutylvalerophenone, 27, undergoes a photofragmentation to give ethylene and p-vinylvalerophenone, 60, by an energy dissipation mechanism involving a 1,4-biradical derived from cyclobutane bond fragmentation.
