European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2017-10-09

Synthesis of cis- and trans-Configured Octahydroperylenes

Dominik Pfaff, Sebastian Bestgen, Joachim Podlech

Index: 10.1002/ejoc.201701218

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Abstract

The formation of octahydroperylenes by dimerization leads to the thermodynamically significantly less stable trans isomer, which can be transformed into the cis isomer in a two-step process.