Abstract:

Light is a powerful activator for many standard and non-standard organic transformations. This review focuses on the photochemical activation of organic reactions that can also occur thermally, in particular isomerization, acylation, hydrolysis, ionization, enolization and aromatic substitutions. Asymmetric reactions with polarized light will also be briefly discussed.

Keywords: lewis acids; chemical activation; photochemical process; vibrational relaxation; luminescence; nitroindolines; nucleophiles; thiazolidin; photo-fries rearrangement; cis-trans isomerization

Document Type: Review article

DOI: 10.2174/1574087054583030

Affiliations: 1: Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musee 9, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.