The role of singlet and triplet states in the photochemistry of eucarvone

✍ Scribed by David I. Schuster; David H. Sussman

• Book ID: 104248906
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 232 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)98047-5

✦ Synopsis

i'revious investigations have shown that eucarvone (1) is slowly converted photochem1cally into a mixtllre of Isomers (2-S) whose composition is solvent -de?eTdent. 4s,s F"echanisms have been suggested for these isonerizations, al- thollqh no work hss been resorted specifying the nature of the excited states and intermediates involved in these reactions.

This paper concerns details of the crnversion of I to 1, which is the main reaction of eucarvone in all twelve of the snlve?ts stlldied.