Synthetic Organi cPhotochemistr y

Axel G . Griesbec k

Jochen Mattay

Preface

iiiContributors

ix

1. Synthetic Organic Photochemistry

1Axel G . Griesbeck and Jochen Mattay

2. Abstraction of y-Hydrogens by Excited Carbonyls

1 1Peter J. Wagner

3. Abstraction of (y l n)-Hydrogen by Excited Carbonyls

4 1Pablo Wessig and Olaf Mühling

4. Photocycloadditions of Alkenes to Excited Carbonyls

8 9Axel G . Griesbeck

5. Photocycloaddition of Alkenes to Excited Alkenes

14 1Steven A . Fleming

6. Di-rc-Methane Rearrangement

16 1Diego Armesto, Maria J . Ortiz, and Antonia R . Agarrabeitia

7. Oxa-Di-7c-Methane Rearrangements

18 9V. Jayathirtha Rao and Axel G . Griesbeck

8. Photocycloaddition of Cycloalk-2-enones to Alkenes

21 1Paul Margaretha

9. Photocycloaddition of Alkenes (Dienes) to Diene s([4 + 2]/[4 + 4])

239Scott McN. Sieburth

10. Photoinduced Electron Transfer Cyclizations via Radical Ions

269Michael Oelgemöller, Jens Otto Bunte, and Jochen Mattay

11. Photo-oxygenation of the [4 + 2] and [2 + 2] Type

299Maria Rosaria Iesce

12. Photo-oxygenation of the Ene-Type

36 5Edward L . Clennan

13. Photogenerated Nitrene Addition to n-Bonds

39 1Hans-Werner Abraham

14. C=C Photoinduced Isomerization Reactions

41 7Tadashi Mori and Yoshihisa Inoue

15. Photoinduced CX Cleavage of Benzylic Substrates

45 3Angelo Albini and Maurizio Fagnoni

16. Photoinduced Aromatic NucleophilicSubstitution Reactions

49 5Roberto A . Rossi

17. Ortho-, Meta-, and Para-Photocycloaddition of Arenes

52 9Norbert Hoffmann

18. Medium Effects on Photochemical Processes : Organized

55 3and Confined MediaLakshmi S. Kaanumalle, Arunkumar Natarajan ,and V. Ramamurthy

Index

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