Bridged rings vinyl substitutions

Double cyclizations to butenolides and furanes. Radicals can undergo intramolecular addition to triple bonds when separated by three carbons. This strategy can be used for synthesis of butenolides (equation 1) and -substituted furanes (equation II). Cyclization of vinyl bromides." Fused and bridged ring systems can be prepared... 

The crystal and molecular structure of the 44, 45, and C5-vinylferro-cenyl-thymidine show that the substituted cyclopentadienyl ring is essentially co-planar with the nucleobase (164). DFT calculations indicate that, irrespective of the extent of saturation in the bridging C2-unit in ethynyl-, vinyl- or ethyl-ferrocenyl-C5-thymidine, a similar amount of spin density is transferred to the nucleobase (Fig. 48). The reduction potentials for these compounds are shifted little compared to the parent ferrocenyl derivatives. 

Porphyrin pigments are yellow-orange fluorescent compounds where four pyrrole units linked by methine bridges form a macrocyclic molecule (Fig. 17). Substitution of the peripheral positions of the pyrrole rings give a large number of possible structures. Methyl, ethyl, vinyl, carboxymethyl, and... 

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