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The synthesis of some azuleno[c]furans
1School of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
|August 30, 2003
Abstract:
Azuleno[5,6-c]furan and 4-chloroazuleno[4,5-c]furan have been prepared by a tandem cycloaddition-cycloreversion strategy. These azulenofurans are qualitatively more stable than isobenzofuran and were characterised spectroscopically and as their Diels-Alder adducts with N-methylmaleimide.