Tetrahedron Letters

Aluminum oxide catalyzed isomerization of acylated cycloalkenes

T Hudlicky, T Srnak

Index: Hudlicky, T.; Srnak, T. Tetrahedron Letters, 1981 , vol. 22, # 35 p. 3351 - 3354

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Abstract

Abstract A homologous series of cyclic olefins and their corresponding 1-methyl derivatives were acylated using acetic anhydride/zinc chloride system. The resulting mixtures were, after appropriate analysis, isomerized quantitatively to the conjugated enones by adsorption on neutral alumina. A detailed, general experimental procedure is given.