Dw. Jones et al., THE ALLEGED ISOLABLE CHLORO-7,7-DIMETHOXYNORBORNADIENE-2,3-DICARBOXYLIC ANHYDRIDE, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (6), 1994, pp. 721-724
Addition of dibromomaleic anhydride to tetrachlorocyclopentadienone di
methyl acetal gives the pseudo-lactone 11 (X-ray crystal structure ana
lysis) and not the mixture of endo- and exo-adducts 2 previously claim
ed; reduction of this product with Zn/HOAc gives 13 and 14 rather than
the putative isolable norbornadienone acetal 3.