M. Bliese et J. Tsanaktsidis, DIMETHYL CUBANE-1,4-DICARBOXYLATE - A PRACTICAL LABORATORY-SCALE SYNTHESIS, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 50(3), 1997, pp. 189-192
Complete experimental details for the preparation of dimethyl cubane-1
,4-dicarboxylate (1) in multigram quantities, from cyclopentanone (2),
in an overall yield of c. 23% are presented.