The thermal addition reactions of cycloheptatriene with aromatic p-quinones

A Mori, H Mametsuka, H Takeshita

Index: Mori, Akira; Mametsuka, Hiroaki; Takeshita, Hitoshi Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1985 , vol. 58, # 7 p. 2072 - 2077

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Abstract

Thermal addition reactions of cycloheptatriene with several aromatic p-quinones gave the Diels-Alder adducts as minor products; the most characteristic feature was the formation of the vic-ditropylation products. The mechanism of their formation was clarified to be a sequential ene-reaction and dehydrogenation by means of chemical conversion from the isolated intermediates. Several new other additions, eg, successive Diels-Alder reactions, ...