Abstract
A new route to several medium ring heterocycle and carbocycle fused naphthalene derivatives of potential medicinal importance has been developed involving tandem applications of Claisen rearrangement and ring‐closing diene metathesis as key steps.
Acknowledgement
Financial assistance from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (DST), New Delhi (Grant No. SR/S1/OC‐51/2005), is gratefully acknowledged. One of the authors (D.G.) is also thankful to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, for a fellowship.