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An efficient synthesis of α-Cuparenone
Chavan, Subhash P.,Ravindranathan,Patil, Sachindra S.,Dhondge, Vijay D.,Dantale, Shuhhada W.
, p. 2629 - 2630 (2007/10/03)
Synthesis of α-Cuparenone is described. The key step involved are photorearrangement of α-halo arylketone (4) to 1-methyl-1-(p-tolyl)acetic acid (5) and extremely mild, essentially neutral, room temperature/3-aza-claisen reaction of N-allylamide (6).