Ketonization of the remarkably strongly acidic elongated enol generated by flash photolytic decarboxylation of p-benzoylphenylacetic acid in aqueous solution.
Photodecarboxylation of p-benzoylphenylacetic acid in aqueous solution produces the elongated enol 5, whose strength as an oxygen acid (pQ(E/a)= 7.67) makes it more acidic than simple enol analogs by several orders of magnitude.
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Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3H6.
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