A. Miyashita et al., SYNTHESIS AND DIASTEREOSELECTIVE STRUCTURAL-CHANGE OF A PHOTOCHROMIC TRANSITION-METAL COMPLEX, (ETA(6)-SPIROBENZOPYRAN)(TRICARBONYL)CHROMIUM, Chemistry Letters, (10), 1997, pp. 965-966
Photochromic transition metal complexes, (eta(6)-spirobenzopyran)Cr(CO
)(3), were synthesized and the structure was determined by an X-ray cr
ystallographic and H-1 NMR measurements. The ring formation during its
synthesis and ring closing reaction during and after UV irradiation p
roceeded diastereoselectively to let chromium atom and oxygen atom of
the pyran ring locate on the same side of the indoline ring.