posted on 2002-06-27, 00:00authored byAngela M. Bernard, Enzo Cadoni, Angelo Frongia, Pier P. Piras, Francesco Secci
The thionium ion, generated through a cyclopropylcarbinyl-cyclobutyl ring expansion, is, for the first time, intramolecularly intercepted by
activated aromatic rings to generate new versatile 2a-methyl-8b-(phenylsulfanyl-1,2a,3,8b-tetrahydro-2H-cyclobuta[c]chromenes.