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SUBMITTER: Xu F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6348472 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Feng F Xiao Xiao X Hoye Thomas R TR
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20170620 25
We demonstrate that the hexadehydro-Diels-Alder (HDDA) cycloisomerization reaction to produce reactive benzyne derivatives can be initiated photochemically. As with the thermal variant of the HDDA process, the reactive intermediates are formed in the absence of reagents or the resulting byproducts required for the generation of benzynes by traditional methods. This photo-HDDA (or hν-HDDA) reaction occurs at much lower temperatures (including even at -70 °C) than the thermal HDDA, but the benzyne ...[more]