Novel photoinduced aromatization of Hantzsch 1,4-dihydropyridines

Meizhong Jin, Yang Li, Longmin Wu, You‐Cheng Liu, Zhong‐Li Liu

Chemical Communications · 1998 · 57 citations · 12 references

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Abstract

4-Alkyl- and/or aryl-1,4-dihydro-2,6-dimethylpyridine-3,5-dicarboxylates (Hantzsch 1,4-dihydropyridines) are quantitatively oxidized to the corresponding pyridine derivatives by irradiation in CCl4via a photoinduced electron transfer mechanism.

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