Cyclopentadiene, photooxidation

Tropolone has been made from 1,2-cycloheptanedione by bromination and reduction, and by reaction with A -bromosuccinimide from cyolo-heptanone by bromination, hydrolysis, and reduction from diethyl pimelate by acyloin condensation and bromination from cyclo-heptatriene by permanganate oxidation from 3,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid by a multistep synthesis from 2,3-dimethoxybenzoic acid by a multistep synthesis from tropone by chlorination and hydrolysis, by amination with hydrazine and hydrolysis, or by photooxidation followed by reduction with thiourea from cyclopentadiene and tetra-fluoroethylene and from cyclopentadiene and dichloroketene. - ... 

The photooxidation of cyclopentadiene by singlet oxygen is one step of an industrial process to make 2-cyclopentene-l, 4-diol [40]. Hence the driver is a commercial one, namely to develop a continuous synthesis of this molecule. 

Photooxidation of Dienes Investigated in Micro Reactors Cas/liquid reaction 24 [CL 24] Oxidation of cyclopentadiene by singlet oxygen to 2-cyclopentene-1,4-diol... 

A total synthesis of 1,3-dideoxynojirimycin starting from cyclopentadiene was proposed by Johnson et al. [206]. Photooxidation of cyclopentadiene and reductive workup with thiourea generates c/ -cyclopent-2-ene-l,4-diol, which is monoacylated with high enantioselectivity (>99% ee) with isoprenyl acetate and Candida antarctica lipase B (Novo Nordisk SP 435) to give 461. After silylation of 461 and subsequent treatment with KOH and oxidation, enantiomerically pure enone 462 is obtained [207]. 

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