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The first photocycloadditions of aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes to methylated isoxazoles are reported. The reactions lead solely to the exo-adducts with high regio- and diastereoselectivities. Ring methylation of the isoxazole substrates is crucial for high conversions and product stability. The 6-arylated bicyclic oxetanes 9a–9c were characterized by X-ray structure analyses and showed the highest thermal stabilities. All oxetanes formed from isoxazoles were highly acid-sensitive and also thermally unstable. Cleavage to the original substrates is dominant and the isoxazole derived oxetanes show type T photochromism.

Functional π-extended fluorene derivatives, 2,7-di(p-substituted-phenyl)fluorenes containing different functional groups such as hydrogen, trimethylsilyl (TMS), methoxycarbonyl, cyano, and nitro groups, were synthesized. Except for the nitro group, the resulting compounds exhibited extremely high fluorescence quantum yields (ΦF >0.85 in chloroform). The diphenylfluorene containing nitro groups have higher fluorescence quantum yield (ΦF = 0.31 in N,N’-dimethyl-formamide) than other nitro-group-containing fluorophores which were previously reported (ΦF