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Irradiation of α-diketones in the presence of tetraalkylstannanes gave α-ketols via electron transfer. The analogy between the photo-induced electron transfer reactions and mass spectrometry exists in the fragmentation of the radical cation of the stannanes.
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Kyushin et al. (1991) studied this question.
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