Photohydrolysis of 2,4,6-trimethylpyrylium perchlorate: evidence for isomerisation to an oxoniabenzvalene intermdiate

1 January 1972

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

No. 22,p. 1240-1241
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39720001240

Abstract

U.v. irradiation of 2,4,6-trimethylpyrylium perchlorate (1) in water gives 2,4-dimethyl-5-oxohex-2-enal (2), possibly via an oxoniabenzvalene intermediate (3).

Keywords

PHOTOHYDROLYSIS
PERCHLORATE
TRIMETHYLPYRYLIUM
DIMETHYL
OXOHEX
INTERMDIATE
POSSIBLY
ENAL
U.V
ISOMERISATION

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