Abstract Tropylidenes 16 and 17 were prepared from [2.2] paracyclophane (10). On treatment with the corresponding trityl salts they were converted into tropyliophanes 26a (tetrafluoroborate) and 26b (perchlorate). With acetone, 26a furnished trapping product 27, which underwent a homo-Diels–Alder addition with tetracyanoethylene to afford adduct 29. All new compounds were characterized by their spectroscopic and analytical data and for ...
[Higuchi, Hiroyuki; Tani, Keita; Otsubo, Tetsuo; Sakata, Yoshiteru; Misumi, Soichi Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1987 , vol. 60, # 11 p. 4027 - 4036]