ISSN:
0018-019X
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Organic Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Benzobenzvalene (naphthvalene; 1) is shown to add SO2 to a lateral bicyclobutane bond with formation of a sulfone 2 and a ‘γ-sultine’ 3. The structure of the latter is unambiguously established by X-ray diffraction. Both adducts extrude SO2 upon direct photolysis at 254 nm and regenerate 1 accompanied by naphthalene in a 1:3 ratio. This result is interpreted in terms of a reversible homolytic cleavage leading, for both, 2 and 3, to the same sulfinyloxy biradical 5, which by loss of SO2 gives the benzoprefulvene biradical 6. The latter in its singlet state undergoes ring closure to 1, or it opens to give naphthalene.
Additional Material:
1 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hlca.19900730617
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