Ja. Leonetti et al., CYCLOADDITION - FRAGMENTATION AS A ROUTE TO BICYCLIC RING-SYSTEMS - USE OF THE INTERMOLECULAR DIYL TRAPPING REACTION, Journal of organic chemistry, 61(5), 1996, pp. 1787-1793
A route to bicyclo[n.3.0] ring systems (n = 5-7) has been devised. Key
transformations include an intermolecular diyl trapping reaction (1 3 --> 4), and fragmentation of the resulting tricyclic cycloadduct 4
(4 --> 5). A variety of diylophiles were examined, including electron
deficient (6, 7, 21, 29, 30, 31), electron rich (8), and push-pull cyc
loalkenes (9, 10, 19, 20).