A. Rudolph, A. Weedon
Sep 1, 1990
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Canadian Journal of Chemistry
Abstract
The products of the photochemical reaction of 2-cyclopentenone with 1,6-heptadiene and with vinylcyclopropane have been examined. With 1,6-heptadiene the products were cyclobutanes, which arise from 2 + 2 photocycloaddition between the cyclopentenone carbon–carbon double bond and one of the two terminal double bonds of the heptadiene. The 1,4-biradical that is an intermediate in this reaction contains a derivative of a 1-hexenyl radical; no products derived from cyclization of this intermediate to a cyclopentylmethyl radical were observed. With vinylcyclopropane some of the products isolated also arose from 2 + 2 photocycloaddition; in addition, comparable quantities of products resulting from rearrangement of the intermediate 1,4-biradical were obtained. In this case the initially produced intermediate 1,4-biradical contains a cyclopropylmethyl radical that can rearrange to a homoallylic radical; the products isolated were derived from intramolecular disproportionation in the new 1,7-biradical containing...