The role of singlet oxygen as reagent in the dye-sensitized photo-oxygenation of α-ketocarboxylic acids
✍ Scribed by Charles W. Jefford; Athanasie Exarchou; Peter A. Cadby
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 231 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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✦ Synopsis
The oxidative decarboxylation of a-ketoglutaric acid by molecular oxygen is thought to be the key step in several dioxygenase-catalyzed hydroxylations.' In general, a-ketocarboxylic acids are unreactive towards ground-state molecular oxygen. However, we have reported that singlet oxygen, generated by dye-sensitization, gives carbon dioxide and the corresponding peroxy acid which instantaneously causes decarboxylation of the starting a-keto acid (eq. 1
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