SYNTHESIS OF MEDIUM AND LARGE RINGS, XLV - THE REACTION OF DIMETHYL 10-OXO-3,6-HEXANOOXEPINE-4,5-DICARBOXYLATE WITH SODIUM METHOXIDE METHANOL - A REINVESTIGATION
W. Tochtermann et al., SYNTHESIS OF MEDIUM AND LARGE RINGS, XLV - THE REACTION OF DIMETHYL 10-OXO-3,6-HEXANOOXEPINE-4,5-DICARBOXYLATE WITH SODIUM METHOXIDE METHANOL - A REINVESTIGATION, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, (3), 1998, pp. 507-508
Treatment of the title compound 1 with sodium methoxide in ether in th
e presence of methanol leads to the bicyclopentyl derivative 3. The st
ructure of 3 was established by X-ray analysis. The structure 2 propos
ed earlier has to be corrected in favour of 3.