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Synthesis and Spontaneous Racemization of Benzanthracene 3,4-Oxide: Photochemical Oxygen-walk Rearrangements of Arene Oxides of Benzanthracene and Triphenylene to Yield Oxepines
Boyd, Derek R.,Sharma, Narain D.,Agarwal, Shiv K.,Gadaginamath, Guru S.,O'Kane, Gerard A.,et al.
, p. 423 - 430 (2007/10/02)
Benzanthracene 3,4-oxide 2, when synthesised from optically pure dibromo ester precursors, was found to have racemized spontaneously and was accompanied by anthraoxepine 14.Photoisomerization of benzanthracene 3,4-oxide 2, triphenylene 1,2-oxide 4 and benzanthracene 1,2-oxide 5 proceeds via an oxygen-walk mechanism to yield anthraoxepine 14, phenanthrooxepine 16 and anthraoxepine 17 respectively.
