Novel thermal rearrangement of 1-alkoxycarbonyl-2-aryl-cyclopropanes

ME Alonso, AW Chitty, S Pekerar…

Index: Alonso, Miguel E.; Chitty, A. Wladimir; Pekerar, Sarah; Borgo, Maria de L. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1984 , # 22 p. 1542 - 1543

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Abstract

2-Arylcyclopropanes substituted with either one acyl and one alkoxycarbonyl or two alkoxycarbonyl groups on C-1 yield 2-carbonyl-1-naphthol derivatives upon thermolysis at temperatures in the range 210–340° C in an unprecedented rearrangement of the cyclopropane ring.