Download PDF
Synlett 1998; 1998(5): 469-470
DOI: 10.1055/s-1998-1715
letter
© Georg Thieme Verlag, Rüdigerstr. 14, 70469 Stuttgart, Germany. All rights reserved. This journal, including all individual contributions and illustrations published therein, is legally protected by copyright for the duration of the copyright period. Any use, exploitation or commercialization outside the narrow limits set by copyright legislation, without the publisher's consent, is illegal and liable to criminal prosecution. This applies in particular to photostat reproduction, copying, cyclostyling, mimeographing or duplication of any kind, translating, preparation of microfilms, and electronic data processing and storage.

Photochemical Carbon Skeletal Rearrangement of the Baylis-Hillman Products: β-C-H Activation Leading to Furans

Shoji Matsumoto* , Koichi Mikami
  • *Department of Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152, Japan
Further Information

Publication History

Publication Date:
31 December 2000 (online)

 PDF Download  Permissions and Reprints All articles of this category

Furan ring formation was found in photochemical reaction of the methyl ether of the Baylis-Hillman products. This reaction proceeds via β-C-H activation of the photo-excited carbonyl compounds.

Baylis-Hillman product - carbon skeletal rearrangement - Furan - C-H activation - photochemistry