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The power of solvent in altering the course of photorearrangements
Sebej, Peter,Lim, Bum Hee,Park, Bong Ser,Givens, Richard S.,Klan, Petr
, p. 644 - 647 (2011/04/15)
A clean bifurcation between two important photochemical reactions through competition of a triplet state Type II H-abstraction reaction with a photo-Favorskii rearrangement for (o/p)-hydroxy-o-methylphenacyl esters that depends on the water content of the solvent has been established. The switch from the anhydrous Type II pathway that yields indanones to the aqueous-dependent pathway producing benzofuranones occurs abruptly at low water concentrations (～8%). The surprisingly clean yields suggest that such reactions are synthetically promising.
