Acid-controlled photoreactions of aryl alkanoates: Competition of transesterification, decarboxylation, Fries-rearrangement and/or transposition

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1187-1199

  Mori, Tadashi ^a   Takamoto, Makoto ^a   Wada, Takehiko ^a   Inoue, Yoshihisa ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

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2,4,6 TRIMETHYLPHENYL (MESITYL) CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLATE; 2,6 DIMETHYLPHENYL (XYLENYL), PHENYL, 4 METHOXYPHENYL (4 ANISYL) ALKANOATE; 4 METHOXYNAPHTHYL ALKANOATE; ACETONITRILE; ALKANE DERIVATIVE; ALKYLBENZENE; ALKYLMESITYLENE; ARYL ALKANOATE; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CYCLOHEXADIENONE; CYCLOHEXYLMESITYLENE; ESTER DERIVATIVE; MESITYL ESTER; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; DECARBOXYLATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTOLYSIS; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESTERIFICATION;

EID: 2442649648     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b305898k     Document Type: Article

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