Abstract: | 4-Methyl-4-tribromomethylcyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-one reacts with zinc dust in absolute DMF to give a mixture of 4-bromo-5-methylcyclohepta-2,4,6-trien-1-one,
4-methyl-cyclohepta-2,4,6-trien-1-one, and 4-dibromomethyl-4-methylcyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-one.
Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 1, pp. 177–178, January, 1998. |