Question
This phenomenon is used to cleave a ketone and abstract a gamma hydrogen to make a substituted cyclobutane in the Yang reaction. This phenomenon must be utilized to form cyclobutadiene (“cyclo-buta-di-ene”) in a pericyclic manner, since it’s otherwise spin-forbidden per the Woodward–Hoffmann rules. Either this phenomenon or another represented by a capital delta are used to promote homolysis (“huh-MALL-uh-sis”) of small molecules, such as in the first step of allylic bromination. Reaction diagrams will typically represent this phenomenon with the letters “h nu” above the reaction arrow. Compounds that decompose due to this phenomenon, such as hydrogen peroxide, are typically kept in opaque or brown bottles. For 10 points, reactions involving what phenomenon are studied in photochemistry? ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Richard Niu | Cornell C | Yale A | 36 | 10 |
Srikar Venkatesan | Penn B | Rutgers B | 39 | 10 |
Vishal Kanigicherla | Penn A | Columbia A | 44 | 10 |
Arjun Bothra | Haverford | Vassar | 81 | 10 |
Andrew Minagar | Yale B | Columbia B | 84 | 10 |
Dylan Epstein-Gross (DII) | Princeton A | Rowan A | 84 | 10 |
Iyanu Nafiu | Yale C | Princeton B | 84 | -5 |
Rico-ian Banting | NYU B | Bard A | 84 | 10 |
Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | NYU A | 98 | 10 |
Jupiter Ding | Princeton B | Yale C | 115 | 10 |