Reactions of derivatives of 1, 2, 3-triphenylcyclopropene with iron salts

AS Monahan, JD Freilich, JJ Fong…

Index: Monahan,A.S. et al. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1978 , vol. 43, # 2 p. 232 - 238

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Abstract

Table I. Of note is that specially prepared “acid-free” 5 does not give acid-catalyzed rearrangement products of 3. Compound 5, prepared in the usual manner6 and not carefully recrystallized, contains some hydrogen bromide as evidenced by the evolution of a gas acidic to litmus when 5 is heated in acetonitrile. Results with 2 parallel those from 5 (see Table 11), although under these conditions indenone formation competes. Methanol and ...