R. Andriamiadanarivo et al., PREPARATION OF FUNCTIONALIZED CYCLOBUTENONES AND PHENOLIC-COMPOUNDS FROM ALPHA-DIAZO BETA-KETOPHOSPHONATES, Tetrahedron letters, 34(49), 1993, pp. 7923-7924
When heated in refluxing benzene or tolune, alpha-diazo beta-ketophosp
honates 2, prepared in three steps from aldeehydes or ketones, gave ri
se to functionalized cyclobutenones 4 or phenolic compounds 5. These p
roducts are formed by electrocyclisation respectively of a vinyl or di
enylketene, resulting from a Wolff rearrangement.