作者:Peter Sebej、Bum Hee Lim、Bong Ser Park、Richard S. Givens、Petr Klan
DOI:10.1021/ol102887f
日期:2011.2.18
A clean bifurcation between two important photochemical reactions through competition of a triplet state Type II H-abstraction reaction with a photo-Favorskii rearrangement for (o/p)-hydroxy-o-methylphenacyl esters that depends on the water content of the solvent has been established. The switch from the anhydrous Type II pathway that yields indanones to the aqueous-dependent pathway producing benzoturanones occurs abruptly at low water concentrations (similar to 8%). The surprisingly clean yields suggest that such reactions are synthetically promising.