Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed)

Experiments on the synthesis of substances related to the sterols. Part LII. Some condensations of substituted β-diketones including an account of a new molecular …

AR Pinder, R Robinson

Index: Pinder; Robinson Journal of the Chemical Society, 1955 , p. 3341,3345

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Abstract

Crotonic anhydride and isobutyrophenone gave a-crotonoylisobutyrophenone (2-benzoyl-2- methylhex-4-en-3-one)(XI), and similarly 2-methyl-trans-1-decalone furnished 2-crotonoyl-2- methyl-trans-1-decalone (XII). Neither of these products could be cyclised to a six-