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  • Title: Photochemische Reaktionen. 83. Mitteilung. Verbindungen der 3,4‐Dihydrojonon‐Reihe als Modelle zur Photochemie γ, δ‐ bzw. δ, ϵ‐ungesättigter Ketone und Aldehyde
  • Contributor: Zink, Markus Peter; Wolf, Hans Richard; Müller, Ernst Peter; Schweizer, Wolfhard Bernd; Jeger, Oskar
  • imprint: Wiley, 1976
  • Published in: Helvetica Chimica Acta
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1002/hlca.19760590105
  • ISSN: 0018-019X; 1522-2675
  • Keywords: Inorganic Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry ; Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ; Drug Discovery ; Biochemistry ; Catalysis
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  • Description: <jats:p><jats:bold>Compounds of the 3,4‐dihydro‐ionone series as models for the photochemistry of γ, δ‐ and δ,ϵ‐ unsaturated ketones and aldehydes</jats:bold>.</jats:p><jats:p>The photochemistry of γ, δ‐ and δ,ϵ‐unsaturated carbonyl compounds of the dihydro‐ionone series has been studied, with special attention to the investigation of oxetane formation <jats:italic>versus</jats:italic> hydrogen abstraction.</jats:p><jats:p>UV.‐irradiation of the dihydro‐β‐ionone compounds with structure <jats:bold>A</jats:bold> (<jats:bold>1</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>7</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>14</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>18</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>24</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>29</jats:bold>) led to isomeric ethers with structures <jats:bold>B</jats:bold> (<jats:bold>2</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>8</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>15</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>19</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>25</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>30</jats:bold>), <jats:bold>C</jats:bold> (<jats:bold>3</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>9</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>16</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>20</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>26</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>31</jats:bold>) and <jats:bold>D</jats:bold> (<jats:bold>4</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>21</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>27</jats:bold>), isomeric bicyclic alcohols with structure <jats:bold>E</jats:bold> (<jats:bold>5</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>10</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>17</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>22</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>28</jats:bold>), and photoreduction products with structure <jats:bold>F</jats:bold> (<jats:bold>6</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>11</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>12</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>13</jats:bold>). Photolysis of dihydro‐γ‐ionone (<jats:bold>32</jats:bold>) gave a complex mixture containing fragmentation product <jats:bold>35</jats:bold>, hydrocarbon <jats:bold>36</jats:bold>, β‐ambrinol (<jats:bold>34</jats:bold>), oxetane <jats:bold>33</jats:bold>, as well as dihydro‐β‐ionone (<jats:bold>1</jats:bold>) and three of its photoproducts (<jats:bold>2</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>3</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>5</jats:bold>). The dihydro‐α‐ionone compounds <jats:bold>37</jats:bold> and <jats:bold>40</jats:bold> gave mixtures of fragmentation products and the oxetanes <jats:bold>38</jats:bold> and <jats:bold>41</jats:bold>. Irradiation of the side‐chain homologues <jats:bold>42</jats:bold> and <jats:bold>45</jats:bold> yielded <jats:bold>43</jats:bold>, which photo‐cyclizes to <jats:bold>44</jats:bold>. In contrast, <jats:bold>3</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>4</jats:bold>‐dihydro‐3′,4′‐dehydro‐β‐ionone (<jats:bold>46</jats:bold>) gave merely the isomeric open‐chain triene‐ketone <jats:bold>47</jats:bold>.</jats:p><jats:p>The structures assigned to the ethers <jats:bold>2</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>3</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>33</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>38</jats:bold> and to the alcohols <jats:bold>5</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>10</jats:bold>, <jats:bold>13</jats:bold> could be confirmed by chemical reactions and mutual interconversions. The structure of the ether <jats:bold>21</jats:bold> had to be established by X‐ray analysis, details of which are described.</jats:p><jats:p>A novel intramolecular hydrogen transfer is involved in formation of ethers <jats:bold>B</jats:bold>. The photocyclization <jats:bold>A → D</jats:bold> probably proceeds by addition of the carbonyl‐C atom to the double bond (<jats:bold>A → h</jats:bold>), followed by methyl (1 → 2)‐shift (<jats:bold>h → i</jats:bold>). Process <jats:bold>A → h</jats:bold> may also be involved in formation of compounds of type <jats:bold>C</jats:bold> and <jats:bold>E</jats:bold>.</jats:p>