The reduction using phenylsilane in a KOH-catalyzed system was applied successfully to the conversion of sulfinyl-substituted cyclopropylcarboxylates into the corresponding alcohols. The presence of sulfinyl substituents in the α-position to the carboxylate group caused a desulfinylation product formation with full regio- and stereoselectivity, instead of a carbonyl group reduction. Investigati...

In the mol-ecule of the title compound, C(26)H(26)Br(2)O(6), the cyclo-hexane ring is in a chair conformation, while the five-membered and 1,3-dioxane rings both adopt envelope conformations. The dihedral angle between the benzene rings is 77.21 (3)°. In the crystal structure, weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O inter-actions link the mol-ecules into centrosymmetric dimers, forming R(2) (2)(14) ring mot...

Novel bichromophoric fluorescent photolabile protecting group, (5-dansyloxy-3-hydroxynaphthalen-2-yl)methyl (DNS-NQMP), allows for the independent photochemical release and fluorescent imaging of caged substrates. Irradiation of DNS-NQMP-caged alcohols and carboxylic acids with 300 or 350 nm light results in fast (k(release) ~ 10(5) s(-1)), efficient (Φ = 0.2), and quantitative release of the s...