Memory effect of chirality in the photoc
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Stefan Sauer; Andreas Schumacher; Frédérique Barbosa; Bernd Giese
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Article
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1998
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Elsevier Science
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French
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Photocyclizations of dipeptides 5 and 8 occur mainly with retention of configuration at the stereogenic center of alanine. This memory effect of chirality is explained by a hindered rotation in the two intermediate biradicals 9 and 10 that slows down the equilibration of the radicals.