The reaction of benzyne with cycloheptatriene

✍ Scribed by L. Lombardo; D. Wege

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 194 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)97339-3

✦ Synopsis

A recent paper on the title subject by Tabushi et al 1 prompts us to record our results in this area. Thermal decomposition of o-bensenediasonium carboxylate in the presence of cycloheptatriene yields two Cl3~12 isomers. One of these is 7-phenylcycloheptatriene 2, and the other,a cycloadduct to which Tabushi et al assigned structure 8, we assign structure 2 on the basis of the evidence presented below.