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Bond Fixation in Annulenes. 15. A Titanium(0)-Mediated Synthesis of a Cyclooctatetraene. Probe of the Relative Size of the Interstitial Phenyl Substituent in 1,3-Dimethyl-2-phenylcyclooctatetraene by means of Racemization Kinetics
Paquette, Leo A.,Gardlik, John M.,McCullough, Kevin J.,Hanzawa, Yuji
, p. 7644 - 7648 (2007/10/02)
A fully regiospecific synthesis of racemic 1,3-dimethyl-2-phenylcyclooctatetraene (23a) has been achieved on the basis of the expectation that trans-4-methyl-5-acetyl-4-cyclohexenyl phenyl ketone (21a) would undergo efficient titanium(0)-promoted cyclizat