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Chiral photogeneration using perfluorocyclopentene-derived photochromes
1Laboratoire de Chimie des Interactions Moléculaires. Collège de France, Paris, France. qopfeaca@vc.ehu.es
Chirality
|February 26, 2000
Abstract:
A new type of perfluorocyclopentenes which contain an optically active group at the 2-position of the thiophene ring were synthesized. Irradiation with UV light afforded the cyclized diastereoisomers in ratios dependent on solvent polarity and temperature.