A novel photoinduced ring opening and isomerization of adamantane-2-spiro isoxazolines using MO(CO)(6)

Abstract

The MO(Co)(6)-mediated photoinduced ring-opening reactions of adamantane isoxazolines involve novel rearrangement that provide enaminoketones as major products and beta-hydroxy ketones as minor ones; in contrast, only beta-hydroxy ketones and alpha,beta-unsaturated ketones were obtained under thermal condition. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.