The reactions of singlet oxygen and the triphenyl phosphite–ozone adduct with germacrene

1 January 1972

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

No. 7,p. 424-425
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39720000424

Abstract

In contrast to epoxidation, germacrene (1) reacts with ¹O₂ at the exocyclic double bond faster than at the strained endocyclic double bonds, but with (PhO)₃-PO₃, germacrene is attacked at the most strained double bond and forms an endocyclic allyl alcohol in contrast to the exocyclic isomers formed in the ¹O₂ reaction.

Keywords

OZONE