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An unprecedented biradical cyclization as an alternative pathway to the Myers–Saito cycloaromatization in the thermal reactions of enyne allenes

Authors

Michael Schmittel, Marc Strittmatter, Susanne Kiau

Publication date

1996/9/6

Journal

Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English

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Pages

1843-1845

Publisher

Hüthig & Wepf Verlag

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Tales of the Unexpected. The thermal reaction of aryl‐substituted enyne allenes 1 does not proceed by the expected Myers‐Saito cycloaromatization. Instead a novel cyclization via intermediate benzofulvene biradicals 2 takes place.

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An unprecedented biradical cyclization as an alternative pathway to the Myers–Saito cycloaromatization in the thermal reactions of enyne allenes

M Schmittel, M Strittmatter, S Kiau - Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, 1996