A novel photoinduced ring opening and isomerization of adamantane-2-spiro isoxazolines using Mo(CO)6

The Mo(CO)6-mediated photoinduced ring-opening reactions of adamantane isoxazolines involve novel rearrangement that provide enaminoketones as major products and β-hydroxy ketones as minor ones; in contrast, only β-hydroxy ketones and α,β-unsaturated ketones were obtained under thermal condition.