Photolytic production of vitamin D. The preparative value of a photo-sensitiser

1 January 1975

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 20,p. 858a
https://doi.org/10.1039/c3975000858a

Abstract

Fluorenone, previously known to sensitise photolytic interconversion of previtamin D and tachysterol trimethylsilyl ethers, is used in a convenient and practical method of increasing the yield of vitamin D from the provitamin.

Keywords

FLUORENONE
CONVENIENT
TACHYSTEROL
PREVITAMIN
INTERCONVERSION
TRIMETHYLSILYL
PROVITAMIN
ETHERS
PHOTO