THE REARRANGEMENT OF SOME 2-SUBSTITUTED-4-BROMO-2,5-DINITRO-6-HYDROXY-3,6-DIMETHYLCYCLOHEX-3-EN-1-ONES

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(01)90296-5

In chloroform at 20 deg C, or in tetrachloroethylene at 120 deg C, the title compounds(1) rearrange to give the α-diketone(2), the structure of which was determined by X-ray crystal structure analysis; a possible rearrangement mechanism is outlined.