SOLID-STATE PHOTOCHEMICAL-REACTION OF ACHIRAL N-(BETA,GAMMA-UNSATURATED CARBONYL)THIOCARBAMATE TO OPTICALLY-ACTIVE THIOLACTONE IN THE CHIRAL CRYSTALLINE ENVIRONMENT
M. Sakamoto et al., SOLID-STATE PHOTOCHEMICAL-REACTION OF ACHIRAL N-(BETA,GAMMA-UNSATURATED CARBONYL)THIOCARBAMATE TO OPTICALLY-ACTIVE THIOLACTONE IN THE CHIRAL CRYSTALLINE ENVIRONMENT, Chemical communications, (21), 1998, pp. 2315-2316
O-Methyl N-(2,2-dimethylbut-3-enoyl)-N-phenylthiocarbamate crystallize
d in the chiral space group P2(1), and the solid state photoreaction i
nitiated intramolecular [2+2] thietane formation followed by rearrange
ment, leading to optically active gamma-thiolactone.