
%0 Journal Article
%A Cutler, Charlotte A. 
%A Cutler, Brian Halton 
%T Studies in the Cycloproparene Series:Reactivity of the 1<emph type="2">H</emph>-Cyclopropa[<emph type="2">b</emph>]naphthalenyl Anion.
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1997/06/30
%V 50
%N 4
%P 267-270
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/C96100
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/C96100 
%X Proton abstraction from C1 of 1H-cyclopropa&#91;b&#93;naphthalene (1b) provides anion (2b) as a highly reactive species that is difficult to intercept in solution with simple electrophiles. The use of iodomethane, benzophenone and acetone leads to the corresponding monosubstituted cyclopropanaphthalene (7)&#8211;(9), but only in modest yields. The reaction with benzophenone provides a complementary but less convenient route to the methylidenecyclopropanaphthalene (5b; R&#8242; = R&#8242;&#8242; = Ph). Reactions of (2b) with benzyl halides, acid chlorides and esters have also been examined, but they do not provide simple substitution products. 
