A palladium-catalyzed rearrangement of 1
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Glenn R. Clark; Sunit Thiensathit
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Article
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1985
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Elsevier Science
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French
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2-methyl-2-cyclopentene-l-ones are produced by treating l-vinyl-1-cyclobutanols with bis(benzonitrile)palladium dichloride and benzoquinone in THF. The vinylcyclobutane rearrangement is a cyclohexannulation which needs an olefin as the ultimate starting material. Danheiser,' Cohen,3'4 and others4 ha