Unsaturated eight-membered ring compounds. XI. Synthesis of sym-dibenzo-1, 5-cyclooctadiene-3, 7-diyne and sym-dibenzo-1, 3, 5-cyclooctatrien-7-yne, presumably …

HNC Wong, PJ Garratt…

Index: Wong,H.N.C. et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1974 , vol. 96, # 17 p. 5604 - 5605

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Abstract

The bromination of sym-dibenzocyclooctatetraene (4) in CCl, with 2 molar equiv of Br2 (with irradiation) to give the tetrabromide 5 in-75z yield has already been described.'j Dehydrobromination of 5 with an excess of KO-t-Bu in THF at room temperature for 30 min, followed by chromatography on Ab03 (Woelm neutral, grade III), gave 6 in 48 yield. Alternatively, treatment of 5 with an excess of 1, 5-diazabicyclo-