Tetrahedron

A novel thermal rearrangement of the 2-thiabicyclo [3, 1, 0] hex-3-ene system. The crystal and molecular structure of ethyl-2, 4-dichloro-5-hydroxy-6-methylbenzoate

RJ Gillespie, J Murray-Rust, P Murray-Rust, AEA Porter

Index: Gillespie, Roger J.; Murray-Rust, Judith; Murray-Rust, Peter; Porter, Alexander E. A. Tetrahedron, 1981 , vol. 37, p. 743 - 746

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Abstract

Thermal rearrangement of 1, 3-dichloro-6-ethoxycarbonyl-2-thiabicyclo [3, 1, 0] hex-3-ene does not follow the anticipated course, but leads instead to ethyl-2, 4-dichloro-5-hydroxy-6- methylbenzoate, whose structure has been confirmed by an X-ray crystal structure determination.