Thermal and photochemical decomposition of benzotriazoles (3) gives carbazoles (4) and (5), and cyclopentaquinolines (6), the formation of these products being rationalised by rearrangements in 4aH-carbazole intermediates (7); one proposed intermediate (11c) has been intercepted in an extended cycloaddition reaction with acrylonitrile.
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Kulagowski et al. (1982) studied this question.