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SUBMITTER: Coskun N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4403802 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tetrahedron 20150501 18
A systematic study of the reactions of cyclopentadiene with α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds in the presence of catalytic pyrrolidine-H<sub>2</sub>O revealed that the reactions can either proceed with a Michael attack at the β-carbon of enone, or 1,2-addition to the carbonyl, leadingeither to 4-cyclopentadienyl-2-butanones or 6-vinylfulvenes. The former can be isolated and/or converted to the corresponding 1,2-dihydropentalenes with base (or in one-pot at longer reaction times). Substitution p ...[more]