Stereocontrolled double ring expansion of fused allylidenecyclopropanes. A novel route to hydroazulenes and other fused bicyclic systems

Autor: Craig A. Shook, Manchao Xiao, James P. Sherbine, Theodore Cohen, Matthew L. Romberger, S.-H. Jung, Fu Tyan Lin, Birong Zhang
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 115:10754-10773
ISSN: 1520-5126
0002-7863
Popis: A variety of 1-(phenylthio)-1-(trimethylsilyl)cyclopropanes, fused to five-, six-, and seven-membered rings have been prepared by several procedures and reductively lithiated by means of aromatic radical anions. The resulting 1-lithio-1-(trimethylsilyl)cyclopropanes have been treated in most cases with α,β-unsaturated aldehydes, followed by potassium tert-butoxide to yield allylidenecyclopropanes. The latter, upon thermal rearrangement either in a sealed tube or in a flash vacuum pyrolysis apparatus, undergo a double ring expansion to cyclopentenocyclohexenes, -cycloheptenes (hydroazulenes), or -cyclooctenes
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