Benzonitrile oxide tropones

The addition of benzonitrile oxide to cyclooctatetraene produced a monoadduct which was induced to undergo valence tautomerism to produce a tricycloisoxazoline (Scheme 104). A similar reaction with tropone gave a minimum of eight adducts from which two monoadducts were isolated (Scheme 104) (70T5113). 

N-Substituted benzotriazole intermediate (77) is an excellant synthon for the synthesis of 2-ethoxy-2-vinylcyclopropanecarboxylate esters (78) [95JOC6], 1-Propargylbenzotriazole was reacted with bromoacetophenone to provide the novel 2-(benzotriazolomethyl)furan (80) in 60% yield [95JOC638]. Annelated N-aminotriazoles, on oxidation, are a good source of cyclic alkynes as illustrated for the reaction of aminotriazolotropone (80) with 4-phenyloxazole to generate the furyl[3,4-cf]tropone (82) from a Diels-Alder intermediate with facile loss of benzonitrile [94TL8421 ]. 

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