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Anodic transformation of cycloheptatriene to tropone and tropolone

T Shono, T Nozoe, H Maekawa, S Kashimura

Index: Shono, Tatsuya; Nozoe, Tetsuo; Maekawa, Hirofumi; Kashimura, Shigenori Tetrahedron Letters, 1988 , vol. 29, # 5 p. 555 - 558

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Abstract

Abstract Cycloheptatriene (CHT) has been directly transformed to 7- methoxycycloheptatriene (7-MCHT), an equivalent compound to a tropylium salt, by the anodic oxidation of CHT in methanol. The further anodic oxidation of 3-MCHT prepared from 7-MCHT has been found to be an effective method of synthesis of tropone and tropolone.