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Perfect switching of photoreactivity by acid: Photochemical decarboxylation versus transesterification of mesityl cyclohexanecarboxylate
Mori, Tadashi,Wada, Takehiko,Inoue, Yoshihisa
, p. 3401 - 3404 (2000)
(matrix presented) Mesityl cyclohexanecarboxylate has been photodecarboxylated upon excitation at 254 nm to form cyclohexylmesitylene in good yield in neutral acetonitrile solutions. In the presence of a catalytic amount of the acid and ethanol as a nucleophile, however, the same compound undergoes facile transesterification upon irradiation, affording its ethyl ester in almost quantitative yield.