
%0 Journal Article
%A Becker, H 
%A Skelton, BW 
%A White, AH 
%T Thermolytic conversion of an acetamido-substituted cyclopropane into a cyclopentenone. Crystal and molecular structures of 2-Spiro-substituted Benzofuran-3-ones
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1984/11/01
%V 37
%N 11
%P 2225-2233
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9842225
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9842225 
%X The thermolysis of an N-methylacetamido cyclopropane, spiro-substituted by a benzofuran-3-one moiety, was found to result in the elimination of methylamine and the formation of the correspondingly spiro-substituted cyclopentenone. The structures of starting material and product were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction methods and a mechanism for the elimination/ring enlargement reaction is proposed on the basis of the X-ray results. 
