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A comparative investigation of 1,4-pentamethylene and 1,4-hexamethylene Dewar benzene. Evidence for the intermediate formation of paracyclophane
Straten, J. W. van,Turkenburg, L. A. M.,Wolf, W. H. de,Bickelhaupt, F.
, p. 89 - 97 (2007/10/02)
The synthesis of the title compounds 1a and 1b is described.Starting from the corresponding 1,2-dimethylenecycloalkanes 6, the compounds 1 were obtained in four steps, viz. addition of dichlorocarbene, reduction with triphenyltin hydride, treatemnt with potassium tert-butoxide and silver-ion-catalyzed rearrangement.In the last step, the 1,2-isomers 11 of 1 were also formed, and their thermal rearrangement to the benzocycloalkenes 4 is briefly described.Compound 1b rearranged to its aromatic isomer (6)paracyclophane (2b) both thermally (60 deg C in solution, 100-460 deg C flow pyrolysis) and under silver-ion catalysis at room temperature; in this latter reaction the initially formed 2b was gradually further isomerized to 4b.At higher temperatures, 2b rearranged to the spirotrienes 3b and finally fragmented to give p-ethylstyrene (17).From 1a, the spirotriene 3a and benzocycloheptene (4a) were obtained by thermolysis and by silver-ion catalysis, respectively.The mechanism of these reactions is discussed and it is concluded that (5)paracyclophane (2a) is a transient intermediate in th reaction of 1a.
