The unusual properties and uses of cycloheptatrienes has led to a variety of methods for the preparation of the parent compo~ nd.~ While some of these methods are capable of being extended to the preparation of substituted cycloheptatrienes, little work has been done in this direction. In a preliminary comm~ nication,~ we reported briefly a synthesis of cycloheptatriene and three of the four possible methylcycloheptatrienes. This paper ...
