Tetrahedron Letters

Comparison of syn dehydrohalogenations from trans-1-bromo-2-chlorocycloalkanes promoted by complex base and by potassium tert-butoxide

AP Croft, RA Bartsch

Index: Croft, Alan P.; Bartsch, Richard A. Tetrahedron Letters, 1983 , vol. 24, # 27 p. 2737 - 2740

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Abstract

Abstract Compared with t-BuOK-t-BuOH, syn eliminations from trans-1-bromo-2- chlorocycloalkanes (C 4-C 8) induced by NaNH 2-NaO-t-Bu in THF are rapid, exhibit greater propensity for dehydrechlorination and show little sensitivity to ring size of the dihalocycloalkane.