posted on 2024-09-06, 03:05authored byEkaterina
S. Sergeeva, Anastasia A. Svistova, Igor A. Ushakov, Anna V. Vologzhanina, Dmitry V. Pavlov, Konstantin A. Lyssenko, Valerii Z. Shirinian, Andrey G. Lvov
Nonsymmetric diarylethenes with an additional “stiff”
cyclohexenol ring undergo various types of tandem transformations
launched by light-induced 6π-photocyclization. Among these,
there are two novel reactions (formal [1,3]-H migration and complete
aromatization to an anthracene derivative) as well as photorearrangement
and formal methane elimination. This diverse reactivity demonstrates
the great potential of semi-stiff-diarylethenes in synthetic photochemistry.