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SUBMITTER: Erden I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3744118 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Erden Ihsan I Ma Jingxiang J Gärtner Christian C Azimi Saeed S Gronert Scott S
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Photooxygenation of 1,1,3-trimethyl-1,2-dihydropentalene gives an unstable endoperoxide which upon decomposition delivers a bicyclic cyclopropanone intermediate; this species either extrudes CO to give a cycloheptadienone or undergoes a 1,3-acyl shift, both processes occurring most likely in a stepwise manner via diradical intermediates. Alternatively, C3a-C4 cleavage in the dioxygen diradical derived from the endoperoxide yields a 2-cyclopropyl substituted cyclopentadienone epoxide. ...[more]