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Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Fisch, Michael Hamilton
URN	etd-02182003-102952
Persistent URL	http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-02182003-102952
Title	The photochemistry of santonin in aprotic solvent
Degree	PhD
Option	Chemistry
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Unknown Committee Member
Keywords	None
Date of Defense	1964-10-09
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Irradiation of santonin in aprotic solvents, e. g. benzene or dioxane, gives rise only to lumisantonin, but further irradiation of lumisantonin then leads to no fewer than four new photoproducts which will be designated mazdasantonin, H, B, and J. The further photoconversion of these compounds, although considerably less striking than that of lumisantonin, has also been studied in a qualitative way. Studies of the singlet or triplet nature of these reactions provides evidence for triplet paths in the conversion of one isomer to another and in the subsequent dimerization of mazdasantonin. Thus, triplet states appear to play an important role in photochemistry even in simple isomerizations which quenching data show to be very fast and to have rates in the range of normal singlet reactions.
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