Thermolysis of 1,2-dioxolanes

1 January 1972

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 5,p. 279-280
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39720000279

Abstract

The 1,5-dioxapentamethylene diradical (2), generated in the thermolysis of 1,2-dioxolanes (1), suffers cyclization into epoxides (3), rearrangement into ketones (4), and fragmentation into ketones (5) as major transformations.

Keywords

DIOXOLANES
DIRADICAL
REARRANGEMENT
EPOXIDES
DIOXAPENTAMETHYLENE
KETONES
THERMOLYSIS
SUFFERS CYCLIZATION
MAJOR TRANSFORMATIONS