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Synthetic Communications
An International Journal for Rapid Communication of Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Volume 48, 2018 - Issue 3
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Original Articles

Synthesis of γ-butyrolactone fused cyclooctene

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Pages 318-322 | Received 24 Aug 2017, Published online: 08 Jan 2018
 

ABSTRACT

The expeditious route for the synthesis of γ-butyrolactone fused cyclooctene starting from the γ-butyrolactone fused cyclopentane through bicyclo[4.2.1]nonan-9-one is reported. Retro-Dieckmann’s condensation of bicyclo[4.2.1]nonan-9-one in presence of sodium methoxide and methanol furnished γ-butyrolactone fused cyclooctene in good yield. Surprisingly, the stereochemistry of ring-junction of γ-butyrolactone fused cyclooctene is different from the γ-butyrolactone fused cyclopentane, and the position of new ester group, which were confirmed unambiguously by X-ray analysis.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank the Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi, for financial assistance. G. H. M. Rao thanks Dr. Ram, President of AAIMS, Jamaica.

Supporting information

Supporting information contains materials and methods, synthetic procedures and analytical data of 1, 3 and 4, 1H and 13C NMR spectra of compounds 3, 4 and 5, and X-ray crystal data of compound 5 associated with this article can be found. Crystallographic data (excluding structure factors) for the structure 5 in this paper have been deposited with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre as supplementary publication no. CCDC 1561599.

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