a Department of Chemistry, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA 16652, USA b Department of Chemistry, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA
Abstract:
Perhydrophenanthrene-1,5,10-trione (6) was isolated from the reaction of methyl 3-(carboxymethyl)cyclohexanone and cyclohexenone in a tandem Michael-Claisen reaction. NMR and X-ray analysis confirmed the structure of the product.