Dynamic equilibria in the products of intramolecular buchner additions of diazoketones to aryl rings bearing methoxy substituents

…, P O'Leary, F Harrington, SE Lawrence…

Index: Maguire; O'Leary; Harrington; Lawrence; Blake Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2001 , vol. 66, # 21 p. 7166 - 7177

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Abstract

Rhodium carboxylate catalyzed aromatic addition reactions of a range of diazoketones bearing methoxy-substituted aryl rings have been explored. While the existence of norcaradiene-cycloheptatriene equilibria in related compounds is well established, the aromatic addition products in this study display more complex dynamic equilibria due to conjugation with the methoxy group; the experimental evidence for this is discussed in ...