Photochemical behaviour of 5-formyl and 5-acetyl uracils in the presence of ethene

Elisabeth Pereira (1) , Sophie Faure (1) , David J Aitken (2)

1 SEESIB - Synthèse et étude de systèmes à intêret biologique
2 ICMMO - Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay

Atypically for uracils, 5-formyl and 5-acetyl uracils react photochemically with excess ethene to produce non-acylated cyclobutane adducts whose formation can be explained by a novel, tandem [2+2] cycloaddition/Norrish-I α-cleavage process

Domaines: Chimie organique

Elisabeth Pereira, Sophie Faure, David J Aitken. Photochemical behaviour of 5-formyl and 5-acetyl uracils in the presence of ethene. Tetrahedron Letters, 2008, 49, pp.1968-1970. ⟨hal-00265057⟩