Convenient access to bicyclic and tricyclic diazenes.

ABSTRACT: Heating the tosylhydrazone of an omega-alkenyl ketone or aldehyde to reflux in toluene in the presence of K(2)CO(3) delivered the bicyclic diazene. Irradiation of the diazene converted it to the cyclopropane. This appears to be a generally useful method for the construction of substituted cyclopentanes and cyclohexanes.

SUBMITTER: Taber DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2765546 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature