Photoinduced homolytic C–H activation in N-(4-homoadamantyl)phthalimide

• Nikola Cindro,
• Margareta Horvat,
• Kata Mlinarić-Majerski,
• Axel G. Griesbeck and
• Nikola Basarić

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 270–277, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.36

• for the abstraction. Keywords: homoadamantanes; photoinduced H-abstraction; phthalimides; Introduction Since the pioneering work of Ciamican and Paterno [1][2], the photochemistry of ketones has been intensively studied [3][4][5][6]. One important chemical pathway for the deactivation of ketones

• from the electronically excited states is photoinduced H-abstraction [7]. Intermolecular photoinduced H-abstraction leads principally to the reduction of the ketone [8][9][10][11][12], whereas intramolecular H-abstraction [13][14] leads to cyclization [15][16][17] or fragmentation, the so called Norish