Although a number of aryl substituted camphor, fenchone and camphenilone compounds have been simple aryl derivatives of bicyclo I2.2. llheptane have not been thoroughly studied. 5-Phenyl-2-norbornene1 the Diels-Alder adduct of styrene and cyclopentadiene, was the first example of this latter type rep~rted.~ Bruson'O investigated the hydration of this olefin, but neither the com- position nor the structure of the product was es- tablished. Saunders and ...
[Olah, George A.; Lee, Chang Soo; Prakash, G. K. Surya; Moriarty, Robert M.; Chander Rao, M. Suresh Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1993 , vol. 115, # 23 p. 10728 - 10732]