The investigation of the photochemistry of phthalimide anion has uncovered its exceptional reactivity with hydrogen donors such as alcohols, toluene, ethers and amines, Photoreactions can be conducted to high conversions and photoadducts are formed in high yield and with predictable regioselectivity. Exploratory studies have revealed that SET from the excited phthalimide anion to phthalimide is a thermodinamically favourable step that produces the electrophilic phthalimidyl radical and is the key step of the process. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Photodecarboxylative benzylations of phthalimide in pH 7 buffer: a simple access to 3-arylmethyleneisoindolin-1-ones
作者:Vincent Belluau、Pierre Noeureuil、Elfrun Ratzke、Aleksei Skvortsov、Sonia Gallagher、Cherri Ann Motti、Michael Oelgemöller
DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2010.07.017
日期:2010.9
Photoadditions of phenylacetates to phthalimide in pH 7 buffer solution give the corresponding benzylated-hydroxyphthalimidines in moderate to high yields of up to 94%. In a micro-structured reactor, higher conversions and purities are achieved. With branched phenylacetates, photoaddition affords diastereoisomeric mixtures with low to moderate de values. Subsequent acid-catalyzed dehydration furnishes the corresponding 3-arylmethyleneisoindolin-1-ones in good to excellent yields and with high E-selectivities. Irradiation of the parent 3-phenylmethyleneisoindolin-1-one under oxidative conditions only leads to cis/trans-isomerization. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.