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Trapping of Unstable Fulvene/Singlet Oxygen Adducts by Reduction with Diazene
Author(s) -
Adam Waldemar,
Erden Ihsan
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.197802101
Subject(s) - adduct , singlet oxygen , photochemistry , fulvene , chemistry , ketone , trapping , singlet state , reduction (mathematics) , cyclobutane , oxygen , organic chemistry , biology , ring (chemistry) , ecology , physics , nuclear physics , excited state , geometry , mathematics
Reduction of unstable peroxides , e.g. (1) and (2) , by diazene generated in situ provides a method of characterizing such compounds. The reduced adducts (3) and (4) are stable at room temperature. Remarkably, both the ketone (5) and the lactone (4) decompose with emission of light.