
%0 Journal Article
%A Brown, RFC 
%A Eastwood, FW 
%A Wong, NR 
%T Synthetic Approaches to the Hypothetical Lactone Intermediate in the Pyrolytic Conversion of 8-Methylcyclobuta[a]naphthalene-1,2-dione Into Acenaphthylene
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1996/07/01
%V 49
%N 7
%P 793-800
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9960793
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9960793 
%X Synthetic approaches to the hypothetical lactone intermediate 8,8a-dihydro-2H-acenaphtho[1,8-bc]furan-2-one (2) based on intramolcular Diels -Alder reaction, and on intramolecular alkylation by diazoacetate groups, were not useful. Generation and pyrolysis of the 9-diazomethylnaphtho[1,2-c]furan-3(1H)-one (19) derived from the corresponding 9-formyl compound (15) gave products including acenaphthylene, consistent with the intermediacy of the lactone (2). 
