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Small Rings, 35. Attempts to synthesize tetramethyltetrahedrane from heterocyclic precursors
Maier, Guenther,Schneider, Manfred,Kreiling, Gerda,Mayer, Wolfram
, p. 3922 - 3934 (2007/10/02)
By comparison of the photochemical behaviour of heterocycles 1 and 3 under matrix conditions it should be possible to prove the existence of tetramethyltetrahedrane (5).Whereas irradiation of 1 leads to the charge-transfer complex 32, the same is not true for 3 in spite of the fact that after warm-up the products, namely dimer 31 of tetramethylcylobutadiene (4) and tetramethylpyridazine (2), are identical in both series.Intermediate formation of tetramethyltetrahedrane is one but not the only way for mechanistic interpretation of the experimental findings.
