The chemistry of cycloheptatriene: Part
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A. P. ter Borg; R. van Helden; A. F. Bickel
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Article
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2010
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Elsevier Science
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English
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## Abstract Acidβcatalysed decomposition of tropyl ether gives tropone and cycloheptatriene in 83.5 and 90 % yields, respectively. Chlorination of tropone in carbon tetrachloride solution yields tropone dichloride, which can be made to isomerize to the hydrochloride of 2βchlorotropone; 2βchlorotro