Thermal and photochemical reactions of unsaturated bicyclic endoperoxides

✍ Scribed by Howard A.J. Carless; Robert Atkins; G.K. Fekarurhobo

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 254 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)89142-x

✦ Synopsis

Thermal, and especially photochemical, rearrangement of the endoperoxides (1) and ( )-( ) gives By-epoxycycloalkanones as primary products, accompanied by the expected syn-diepoxides.

Unsaturated endoperoxides [e.g.(l)] are readily available by reaction of singlet oxygen ('0,) with conjugated dienes. 1 Such endoperoxides have proved extremely