The familiar equilibrium between 1, 7- octadiene and cyclooctene
at temperatures exceeding 3000, indicates that an ene-retroene
process could be used as a six atom ring expansion method. To test
this possibility we prepared both cis and trans isomers of 1, 2- diallyl-
1, 2 -bis (trimethylsiloxy) cyclohexane and pyrolyzed...
PART I. Asymmetric syntheses of both natural (+)- and nonnatural (-)-byssochlamic acid via a [2+2] photoaddition-cycloreversion strategy are described. X-ray crystallographic analysis of the cyclohexylamine salt 99 showed that the structure of the monomethyl ester 100 from esterase hydrolysis of 44 was originally misassigned as 56. The enantiomeric relationship of...