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SUBMITTER: Ota E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6508595 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ota Eisuke E Wang Huaiju H Frye Nils Lennart NL Knowles Robert R RR
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20190115 4
We report a general protocol for the light-driven isomerization of cyclic aliphatic alcohols to linear carbonyl compounds. These reactions proceed via proton-coupled electron-transfer activation of alcohol O-H bonds followed by subsequent C-C β-scission of the resulting alkoxy radical intermediates. In many cases, these redox-neutral isomerizations proceed in opposition to a significant energetic gradient, yielding products that are less thermodynamically stable than the starting materials. A me ...[more]