Tetrahedron Letters

Facile synthesis of 1, 3-diacetyl-2-methylcyclopentene a versatile synthetic intermediate.

R Pardo, M Santelli

Index: Pardo, Roselyne; Santelli, Maurice Tetrahedron Letters, 1981 , vol. 22, # 39 p. 3843 - 3846

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Abstract

Hydrindanone 1 is an important product because of the widespread occurrence of its derivatives in natural products as vitamins D (1). Our synthetic strategy entails the attachment of a suitable equivalent of the acetaldehyde enolate (acetaldehyde d2 reagents (2)) tG a 1, 3-diacetyl-l-methylcyclopentene 2 followed by subsequent cyclisation.-