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Photosensitized oxidations of substituted pyrroles: Unanticipated radical-derived oxygenated products
Alberti, Mariza N.,Vougioukalakis, Georgios C.,Orfanopoulos, Michael
, p. 7274 - 7282 (2009)
(Chemical Equation Presented) Photooxidation of pyrrole adducts 7-10 has been investigated in order to establish a general reaction pattern andmechanism for the formation of the resulting oxygenated products. The reactions were performed in several solvents utilizing both type I and type II sensitizers. In most cases, photooxidations gave complex mixture of products. Among these products, 5,5- or 6,5-bicyclic lactams (11, 15, and 19), maleimide 12 unsaturated γ-lactams (16 and 20), 5-hydroxylactams (13, 17, and21), and 5-methoxylactams (14, 18, and22) wereisolated and characterized. Photooxidation of 2,5-dimethyl-substituted pyrrole 10 in aprotic solvents unexpectedly afforded aldehyde 23 as the major product. Moreover, photooxidation of pyrrole adduct 10 in protic solvents exclusively gave the unprecedented solvent-trapped products 24-27. The formation of products 11-22 was rationalized by the intermediacy of a commonendoperoxide intermediate, whichcould be formedby both type I and type II mechanisms. Compounds 23-27 were most probably formed via an electron-transfer mechanism. 2009 American Chemical Society.
