Oxaspiropentane. A rapid route to cyclobutanone
- 1 January 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society D: Chemical Communications
- No. 23,p. 1579b-1580
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c2971001579b
Abstract
Methylenecyclopropane, on treatment with an organic peracid, undergoes quantitative oxidation into oxaspiropentane; this so far unknown epoxide is converted into cyclobutanone by a catalytic amount of lithium iodide.Keywords
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