Investigation of the photo-fries rearrangements of two 2-naphthyl alkanoates by experiment and theory. Comparison with the acid-catalyzed reactions

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1962-1974

  Cui, Changxing ^a   Wang, Xiaochun ^a   Weiss, Richard G ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1-OCTANOL; 2-NAPHTHOLS; AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ACID-CATALYZED REACTIONS; ALKANOATES; CROSS-OVER; ENOLIZATION; EXCITED SINGLET STATE; FLUORESCENCE STUDIES; FRIES REARRANGEMENT; LEWIS ACIDS; PARENT MOLECULES; PHOTOPRODUCTS; PROPANOATE; RADICAL PAIR; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; SOLVENT EFFECTS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; TRIPLET SENSITIZATION;

ACIDS; ETHANOL; IRRADIATION; PHENOLS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 0000934768     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo952108g     Document Type: Article

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