Carbocyclic ring expansion reactions via radical chain processes

JE Baldwin, RM Adlington, J Robertson

Index: Baldwin, Jack E.; Adlington, Robert M.; Robertson, Jeremy Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1988 , # 21 p. 1404 - 1406

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Abstract

Free radical mediated ring expansion of cis-and trans-α-substituted-β- stannylcyclohexanones provides efficient routes to cis-and trans-cyclononenones and cyclodecenones; the cis-/trans-geometry of the precursor controls the alkene geometry of the ring-expanded product.