Iy. Jeong et al., Palladium-catalyzed ring expansion of hydroxy methoxyallenylphthalans as anovel synthetic method for highly substituted 4-isochromanone derivatives, HETEROCYCLE, 52(1), 2000, pp. 85-89
The palladium(0)-catalyzed ring expansion reaction using hydroxy methoxyall
enylphthalans (3) proceeded smoothly to give highly substituted 4-isochroma
none derivatives (4), and treatment of commercially available phthalide (5)
with Lithium methoxyallene furnished two atom ring-expanded endo-benzoxepi
n-5-one (8).