Additions and corrections


On the decarboxylation of 2-methyl-1-tetralone-2-carboxylic acid – oxidation of the enol intermediate by triplet oxygen

Abdelkhalek Riahi, Jacques Muzart, Manabu Abe and Norbert Hoffmann

New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 2245–2249 (DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ00457K). Amendment published 14th November 2013.


To understand more easily the intersystem crossing process from T-DR to S-DR, the figure of the one-center spin-flip was revised in Scheme 5.




Scheme 5 Quantum chemical calculations on the addition of triplet oxygen (3O2) to enol 3 form 2-methyltetralone.


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