6-Methoxy-2-naphthonitrile undergoes photocycloaddition to 2-chloroacrylonitrile to give [2 + 2] cyclobutane adducts (1a and 1b), the structure of one of which (1a) has been unambiguously confirmed by an X-ray structural analysis.
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