. alpha.,. alpha.-Dimethoxy-o-xylylene [5-(dimethoxymethylene)-6-methylene-1, 3-cyclohexadiene]: formation by 1, 4-elimination and electrocyclic routes and reactions

RJ Moss, RO White, B Rickborn

Index: Moss, Randall J.; White, Russell O.; Rickborn, Bruce Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1985 , vol. 50, # 25 p. 5132 - 5139

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Abstract

mation of reactive intermediates, absent low-temperature isolation or direct spectroscopic observation, is necessarily indirect and often is inferred from the production of an isolable product. Diels-Alder reactions are traditionally used to probe the formation of o-xylylenes, ...