Syntheses of bicyclo [3.3. 0] octanes via bifurcating radical cyclization pathways

M Nagai, J Lazor, CS Wilcox

Index: Nagai, Mitsuo; Lazor, Jerome; Wilcox, Craig S. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1990 , vol. 55, # 11 p. 3440 - 3442

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Abstract

Radical cyclization has become a useful method for carbon-carbon bond formation and is especially appro- priate for efficient syntheses of cyclopentanoid com- pounds.' Among the radical cyclizations, simple cycliza- tions and more complex tandem polycyclizations have been applied to the syntheses of polycyclic products.2 In this paper we report the first example of intramolecular dou- ble-radical-based cyclization based on a bifurcating, rather than tandem, pathway. ...