Mj. Mphahlele et Ta. Modro, REACTION OF CARBANIONS GENERATED FROM ALLYLIC PHOSPHONATES WITH BETA-SUBSTITUTED CYCLIC ENONES, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (18), 1996, pp. 2261-2264
Lithiated allylic phosphonates react with 3-methoxy- or 3-chloro-subst
ituted cyclohexanones and cyclopentanones at the beta-carbon according
to the addition-elimination mechanism. The initial adducts undergo sp
ontaneous isomerisation to the fully conjugated products, which upon t
reatment with I-2 in MeOH aromatise to the corresponding 3-substituted
anisole derivatives.