Reactions of Furan Compounds. XVI. 1 Conversion of Tetrahydro-2-methylenefuran Successively into Dihydromethylfuran, Cyclopropyl Methyl Ketone and Methyl …

DMA Armitage, CL Wilson

Index: Armitage; Wilson Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1959 , vol. 81, p. 2437

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Abstract

Tetrahydro-2-methylenefuran (I) could have been first made by Kirner3 who attempted to make methyl tetrahydrofurfuryl ether by the reaction of the chloride and methanol using powdered potassium hydroxide. He described the formation of unsaturated material to which he tentatively gave formula I without, however, any data to sup-port it. Later Paul4 was somewhat more successful