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Products of photoreduction of 9,10-phenanthrenequinone in the presence of N,N-dimethylanilines and polymethylbenzenes
Shurygina,Kurskii,Chesnokov,Abakumov
, p. 1459 - 1466 (2008)
Photoreduction of 9,10-phenanthrenequinone (PQ) in the presence of p-substituted N,N-dimethylanilines and polymethylbenzenes affords corresponding phenolethers as primary products. In the subsequent process shielded from light, phenolethers, which were formed by photoreaction of PQ with N,N-dimethylanilines, were quantitatively converted to give corresponding ketols. Phenolethers of 9,10-phenanthrenequinone and polymethylbenzenes are rearranged only under irradiation and in the presence of second molecule of PQ to form ketols. Stability of phenolethers?is determined by redox properties and structure of hydrogen donors.
Products and mechanisms of photochemical transformations of o-quinones
Shurygina,Kurskii, Yu.A.,Druzhkov,Chesnokov,Abakumov
scheme or table, p. 234 - 238 (2011/11/06)
The photochemical transformations of quinones by the action of light at λ > 500 nm, namely, the photodecarbonylation and photoreduction reactions were studied with the use of a series of o-benzoquinones and 9,10-phenanthrenequinone as examples. The two-stage mechanism of the decarbonylation reaction of o-benzoquinones was established. At the first stage, rearrangement of a photoexcited quinone molecule into a bicyclic compound that spontaneously decomposes in the dark reaction into cyclopentadienone and CO takes place. It has been found that the formation of the photoreduction products of both o-benzoquinones and 9,10-phenanthrenequinone in the presence of various H donors (N,N-dimethylanilines and polymethylbenzenes) follows the same mechanism. In the first step, a phenol ether is produced, which subsequently undergoes quantitative transformation into pyrocatechol or ketol via the heterolytic mechanism. The stability of phenol ethers is determined by the structure and redox properties of the reactants.
