Ring Contraction of Tropylium Ions into Benzenoid Derivatives

Org Lett. 2022 Apr 8;24(13):2520-2525. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c00663. Epub 2022 Mar 24.

Authors

Demelza J M Lyons¹, An H Dinh¹, Nhan N H Ton¹, Reece D Crocker¹, Binh Khanh Mai², Thanh Vinh Nguyen¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
² Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States.

PMID: 35324211
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c00663

Abstract

We report a method to convert substituted tropylium ions into benzenoid derivatives.