Photo-oxygenations de composes aromatiques sensibilisees par des accepteurs d'electron

Photo-oxygenation of aromatic compounds sensitized by electron acceptors, like 9-10 dicyanoanthracene (DCA) is shown to proceed by two distinct mechanisms each one beginning by an electron-transfer step: in the first way superoxide ion O₂^?] is involved and in the second one singlet oxygen ¹O₂^*] is produced according to an unusual process.