Symmetry-enforced conformational control of photochemical reactivity in 2-vinyl-1,3-terphenyl

Frederick D. Lewis; Xiaobing Zuo; Vladimir Gevorgyan; Michael Rubin

doi:10.1021/ja028251q

Symmetry-enforced conformational control of photochemical reactivity in 2-vinyl-1,3-terphenyl

Frederick D. Lewis^*, Xiaobing Zuo, Vladimir Gevorgyan, Michael Rubin

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The photocyclization of o-vinylbiphenyl to 9,10-dihydrophenanthrene occurs with very low quantum yield because of the low ground-state population of the reactive syn rotamer. 2-Vinyl-1,3-terphenyl exists as a single rotamer which undergoes highly efficient photocyclization. Irradiation at 77 K in a rigid glass permits observation of the 8a,9-dihydrophenanthrene which rearranges to the 9,10-dihydrophenanthrene upon warming of the glass. The barriers for photocyclization and the thermal sigmatropic hydrogen shift are both remarkably small.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	13664-13665
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of the American Chemical Society
Volume	124
Issue number	46
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/ja028251q
State	Published - Nov 20 2002

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