Sequential Norrish Type II Photoelimination and Intramolecular Aldol Cyclization of 1,2-Diketones in Carbohydrate Systems: Stereoselective Synthesis of Cyclopentitols
Temperature dependent solvent effects have been investigated on the Norrish Type II reaction of 1-phenylpentan-1-one and its p-methyl derivative. Efficiencies of the photoreaction were studied in terms of solvent polarity and base addition as a function of temperature. Such a small structure change as the p-methyl substitution in 1-phenylpentan-1-one altered the temperature dependent photoreactivity in presence of weak bases. The experimental results suggest that the hydrogen bonding between the Type II biradical intermediate OH group and the solvent is weaker for 1-(4-methylphenyl)pentan-1-one than that for 1-phenylpentan-1-one at 20 °C but the interactions probably vanish in both cases at 80 °C.
Sequential Norrish Type II Photoelimination and Intramolecular Aldol Cyclization of α-Diketones: Synthesis of Polyhydroxylated Cyclopentitols by Ring Contraction of Hexopyranose Carbohydrate Derivatives