Tetrahedron letters

Cyclooctatetraene made easy

J Gottfriedsen, A Miloslavina, FT Edelmann

Index: Gottfriedsen, Jochen; Miloslavina, Alesia; Edelmann, Frank T. Tetrahedron Letters, 2004 , vol. 45, # 18 p. 3583 - 3584

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Abstract

Cyclooctatetraene, C8H8, has been made readily available from 1, 5-cyclooctadiene in 65% yield without the need of using hazardous or toxic reagents by the straightforward oxidation of the intermediate [Li (tmeda)] 2C8H8 (, tmeda= N, N, N′, N′-tetramethylethylenediamine ) with di-tert-butylperoxide.