Photochemical reactions of bicyclo[2.2.2]oct-5-en-2-ones having mixed chromophores like a 5,6 dibenzoyl moiety and bulky electron-deficient substituents like phenyl or isopropenyl at the bridgehead position were analyzed for the first time in different solvents and upon irradiation with different wavelengths. In all cases, a regioselective photoinduced 1,5-phenyl migration leading to vinyl ketenes from the more congested site of the molecule to the less congested one has been observed. The ketenes were exceptionally stable both in air and solution. Its stability studies in acetonitrile through time-dependent UV absorption spectra revealed that it remained almost unchanged at least for a couple of weeks.
Photoreaction of Bicyclo[2.2.2]oct-5-en-2-ones having mixed chromophores like 5,6 dibenzoyl moiety and phenyl or isopropenyl like electron withdrawing groups at the bridgehead position have been checked in different solvent and different wavelength. In all cases regioselective 1,5-photophenyl migration leading to vinyl ketenes from more congested site of the molecule to the less one have been observed. The ketenes were exceptionally stable both in air and in solution. Its stability studies in acetonitrile through time dependent UV absorbance spectra revealed that it remained almost unchanged at least for couple of weeks.
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