• Journal of Photoscience
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.91-93
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• 1996

In connection with our interest on the photochemical properties of heteroaryl halides, which are currently the subject of heterocyclic ring formation and haloarene degradation, we have studied the photochemistry of the haloarene linked to N-heteroarene compounds. Imidazo[5,1-a]isoindole was synthesized from N-(ochlorobenzyl)imidazole or N-(o-bromobenzyl) imidazole in acidic aqueous solution or acetonitrile via the intramolgcular photocyclization (Table 1). This type of reaction provides the synthetic methods for 5- and 6-membered polyheteroatomic heterocyclic ring compounds. However, the reaction mechanism for the intramolecular photocyclization of haloarene tethered heteroarenes has not yet been established. Grimshaw et al. suggested a mechanism for homolyric carbonhalogen bond fission assisted by radical complexation to explain their results in the photocyclization of 5-(2-chlorophenyl)-1,3-diphenylpyrazole. They also reported the detection of acyclohexadienyl intermediate involved in the above reaction. Park et al. reported several transient 'intermediates involved in the laser flash photolysis of N-(o-halobenzyl) pyridinium and N-benzyl-2-halopyridinium salts. Thus we performed the laser flash photolysis study on the photocyclization reaction of N-(o-chlorobenzyl) imidazole to identify the intermediate species involved in the reaction. Here, we report on the preliminary results in the photocyclization reaction of N-(o-halobenzyl)imidazole through the detection of reaction intermediates.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.212-220
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• 1976

The photocyclization of 1,1'-dicycloalkenyls (1,1'-dicyclohexenyl, 1,1'-dicyclopentenyl, 1,1'-dicycloheptenyl and 1,1'-dicyclooctenyl) is studied. Irradiation at liquid nitrogen temperature does not show trans double bond band in IR spectra. Even though naphthalene and pyrene fluorescence are quenched very efficiently by 1, 1'-dicycloalkenyls, no or trace amount of cyclobutenes are accompanied. When acetophenone or benzophenone is used, cyclobutene is obtained only from 1,1'-dicyclohexenyls, 1,1'-dicycloheptenyl giving some adducts. Naphthalene and pyrene sensitizes adduct formation but not cyclization. From above observations, it is concluded that photocyclization occurs from the planar s-cis triplet state rather than twisted triplet, singlet excited state or vibrationally excited ground state in sensitized photocyclization of 1,1'-dicycloalkenyls.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.32 no.9
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• pp.3465-3468
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• 2011

• Journal of Photoscience
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.49-60
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• 2003

How stereo selectivity in singlet and triplet photocycloaddition and photocyclization reactions, respectively, is linked to spin selectivity and how this link affects our understanding of photochemical reaction mechanisms, is described in this review. As illustrative examples, the Paterno-Buchi reaction and the Norrish-Yang cyclization are described with emphasis on triplet biradical structure and dynamics.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.152-153
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• 1993

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.426-436
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• 1985

Preparative and kinetic photochemical reactions of several benzanilides were studied. Several substituted benzanilides were synthesized by acylation of substituted anilines with substituted benzoyl chlorides. While benzanilide gave a photo-Fries type reaction product, 2-chlorobenzaniline, 2-bromobenzanilide, and 2-methoxybenzanilide gave a photocyclization reaction product, phenanthridone. Since 8-chlorophenanthridone was obtained from 2,2'-dichlorobenzanilide, the carbonyl phenyl is the excited site. Quantum yield of photocyclization of 2-chlorobenzanilide, 2'-chlorobenzanilide, and 2-methoxybenzanilide were obtained. 2-Chlorobenzanilide was photocyclized effectively and 2'-chlorobenzanilide ineffectively. Since the oxygen present in the reaction medium retarded the photocyclization reaction of 2-chlorobenzanilide, the triplet state of 2-chlorobenzanilide is involved. The mechanism of the photocyclization of 2-chlorobenzanilide is suggested: $\pi-complex$ between carbonyl phenyl and N-phenyl was formed from the triplet state of 2-chlorobenzanilide; neighbour phenyl (N-phenyl) assists for leaving of chlorine from carbonyl phenyl to make an intermediate, cyclized conjugated radical, because electron donating group on the N-phenyl ring accelerated the reaction; hydrogen detachment from the intermediate is obviously not a rate determined step because there was no isotope effect on the rate of photocyclization. The photocyclization reaction rate of 2-methoxybenzanilide was faster in the presence of oxygen than in the absence of oxygen. Thus, the singlet excited state of 2-methoxybenzanilide is involved in the reaction. Probably, the intermediate, methoxyhydro-phenanthridone is oxidized by oxygen in the medium to give phenanthridone.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.1108-1114
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• 2013

Photochemical reactions of fluoro- vs. nonfluoro-substituted polymethylenoxy chain linked phthalimide were carried out to explore how electronegative fluorine atoms inside the donor chain influence photocyclization reaction efficiencies and to briefly determine the alkali metal binding properties of the photoproducts. The results of this study show that the fluorine-substituted donor chain linked phthalimide undergoes inefficient photocyclization via single electron transfer (SET)-induced excited state pathways to generate 14-membered cyclic amidol compared to nonfluoro-analog due to low electron donor ability of the terminal oxygen donor site. These results show that photoinduced intramolecular SET processes arising from ${\alpha}$-silyl ether electron donors to phthalimides are largely dependent on the kinds of substituents inside donor chain. Finally, a preliminary study with the cyclic amidols generated in this effort showed that they have weak alkali metal cation binding properties regardless of absence/presence of fluoro-substituents.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.67-70
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• 1999

trans-1-(9-Anthryl)-2-(n-pyridyl)ethene (t-n-APyE, n=2 or 4) and trans-1-(9-anthryl)-2-pyrazinylethene (T-APzE) exhibits solvent-dependent fluorescence and efficient trans)cis photoisomerization. Photochemical reactivities of t-2-APyE, t-4-APyE, and t-APzE have been investigated in nonpolar and polar solvents. In nonpolar solvent, parallel photocyclization reaction occurs very efficiently in competition with the fluorescence and photoisomerization. But, in polar solvent, photocyclization was not observed. It is probably due to the stabilization of charge separated state in polar solvent, which is an intermediate in photoisomerization reaction.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.68-70
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• 1980

1,4,5,8-Tetraazaphenanthrene, a new tetraazaheteroaromatic compound, has been synthesized photochemically in 90 % yield and quantum yield of $5.1{\times}10^{-2}$ from dilute benzene solutions of 1,2-bispyrazyl ethylene(BPE) in the presence of oxygen as an oxidant. Iodine was not appropriate oxidant because of strong complexing with BPE and also enhanced intersystem crossing of BPE and thereby decreasing the photocyclization of BPE. Salt effect, solvent effect, and quenching and sensitization studies on the photocyclization of BPE have shown that ($^l(n, {\pi}^*$) is the reactive state for the cyclization in comparison to ($^1{\pi}, {\pi}^*$) state for the ordinary stilbene derivatives.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.83-85
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• 2005

Photochemical reactivities of ${\beta}-ethoxypropiophenones$ are changed dramatically by putting a halogen at a position to the carbonyl functionality. ${\alpha}-Bromo-{\beta}-ethoxypropiophenone$ gives C-Br bond cleavage products solely, but ${\alpha}-chloro-{\beta}-ethoxypropiophenone$ forms mainly the Yang photocyclization products upon irradiation. The different reactivities of two compounds can be explained by relative rates of C-X bond cleavage and a-hydrogen abstraction.