Solvent polarity effects on the regioselectivity of photoaddition reactions of arene-ethene systems

✍ Scribed by Andrew Gilbert; Paul Yianni

• Book ID: 104220301
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 130 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)86801-x

✦ Synopsis

Use of polar solvents in the ortho photocycloaddition of ethenes to anisole greatly increases the regioselectivity of the process and the major adducts reflect 1,2-attack onto the arene.