2-(4-Ketoalkyl)cyclopentanones, when subjected to the action of 1 M H 2 SO 4 at reflux, undergo ring cleavage and formation reactions to give 4-(1-cyclopentenyl)butanoic acids. When the starting ring is six-membered instead, a bicyclic enone results. Mechanistic discussion and some experimental test
Some acid catalised rearrangements of Anhydrocryptopine
β Scribed by D.W. Brown; S.F. Dyke
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1966
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 263 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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β¦ Synopsis
When the opium alkaloid cryptopine (1) is treated' with phosphorus oxychloride, ring-closure occurs to yield (2), which is transformed by potassium hydroxide into anhydrocryptopine (3), C21H2LN04.
In the course of Perkin's classical studies'on cryptopine he described the reactions of anhydrocryptopine with boihconcentrated and dilute hydrochloric acids.
Prompted by our interest in the chemistry of L,2-dihydroiscquinoLines2 we decided to re-investigate these reactions.
After boiling anhydrocryptopine (3) with cont. HCl for 45 seconds.
Berkin isolated three bases, which he named epicryptopines A, B and C, C21H23N05r and for which he proposed the structures (4), ( 5). and ( 6),
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