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p-Chloromercurobenzophenone exhibits dual reactivity during photolysis: in solvents that are hydrogen donors it is photoreduced with the formation of a mercury-containing ketyl radical, while in other solvents it undergoes demercuration. Photolysis of p-chloromercurobenzophenone by both paths occurs from the triplet excited state.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1738–1742, August, 1990.
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Sten, E.N., Tarasov, V.F. Photochemistry of p-chloromercurobenzophenone: Photoreduction as an alternative to demercuration. Russ Chem Bull 39, 1574–1577 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00961480
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00961480