2-Hydroxyphenacyl ester: a new photoremovable protecting group

Autor: Bokolombe Pitchou Ngoy, Tomáš Šolomek, Richard S. Givens, Bum Hee Lim, Tomáš Pastierik, Petr Klán, Peter Šebej, Dominik Heger, Bong Ser Park
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Photochemicalphotobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology. 11(9)
ISSN: 1474-9092
Popis: A 2-hydroxyphenacyl moiety absorbing below 370 nm is proposed as a new photoremovable protecting group for carboxylates and sulfonates. Laser flash photolysis and steady-state sensitization studies show that the leaving group is released from a short-lived triplet state. In addition, DFT-based quantum chemical calculations were performed to determine the key reaction steps. We found that triplet excited state intramolecular proton transfer represents a major deactivation channel. Minor productive pathways involving the triplet anion and quinoid triplet enol intermediates have also been identified.
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