The influence of ground state conformation on the photochemical ring-opening of 5-alkylcyclohexa-1,3-dienes

1 January 1972

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

No. 1,p. 24-25
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39720000024

Abstract

Photochemical electrocyclic ring-opening of 5-alkylcyclohexa-1,3-dienes may be interpreted in terms of ground-state conformational control of the direction of conrotatory motion.

Keywords

GROUND STATE CONFORMATION
CONROTATORY
ELECTROCYCLIC
PHOTOCHEMICAL
DIENES
ALKYLCYCLOHEXA
INFLUENCE OF GROUND