Cyclopentanone 4-alkenal

Some straightforward, efficient cyclopentanellation procedures were developed recently. Addition of a malonic ester anion to a cyclopropane-1,1-dicarboxylic ester followed by a Dieckmann condensation (S. Danishefsky, 1974) or addition of iJ-ketoester anions to a (l-phenylthiocyclopropyl)phosphonium cation followed by intramolecular Wittig reaction (J.P, Marino. 1975) produced cyclopentanones. Another procedure starts with a (2 + 21-cycloaddition of dichloroketene to alkenes followed by regioselective ring expansion with diazomethane. The resulting 2,2-dichlorocyclopentanones can be converted to a large variety of cyclopentane derivatives (A.E. Greene. 1979 J.-P. Deprds, 1980). 

What alkene would yield a mixture of cyclopentanone and propana) on treatment with ozone followed by reduction with zinc ... 

Compound A, C10H 8O, undergoes reaction with dilute H2S04 at 50 °C to yield a mixture of two alkenes, QpH ir>. The major alkene product, B, gives only cyclopentanone after ozone treatment followed by reduction with zinc in acetic acid. Identify A and B, and write the reactions. 

Most photodecarbonylation reactions of cyclic ketones, especially in the vapor phase, have been postulated to proceed from various vibrational levels of excited singlet states.321 However, the elimination reaction leading to unsaturated aldehydes has now been shown to occur largely via excited triplet states. In solution, where the lowest vibrational levels of the excited states are rapidly reached, to-alkenals are the major products observed in both photolysis and radiolysis of cyclopentanone and cyclohexanone. The reaction is quenched by oxygen and dienes,322-324 as well as by the alkenal produced in the reaction.325 The reaction is also sensitized by benzene triplets.322,323 With cyclopentanone, quenching by 1M piperylene occurs some 20 times as fast... 

Nucleophilic attack occurs at C(2) of the diene. The 1,3-cyclohexadiene complex 66 is converted to the homoallyl anionic complex 67 by nucleophilic attack, and the 3-alkyl-1-cyclohexene 68 is obtained by protonation. Insertion of CO to 67 generates the acyl complex 69, and its protonation and reductive elimination afford the aldehyde 70 [20]. Reaction of the butadiene complex 56 with an anion derived from ester 71 under CO atmosphere generates the homoallyl complex 72 and then the acyl complex 73 by CO insertion. The cyclopentanone complex 74 is formed by intramolecular insertion of alkene, and the 3-substituted cyclopentanone 75 is obtained by reductive elimination. The intramolecular version, when applied to the 1,3-cyclohexadiene complex 76 bearing an ester chain at C(5), offers a good synthetic route to the bicyclo[3.3.1]nonane system 78 via intermediate 77 [21]. 

The easiest way to do the disconnections is to reverse the rearrangement and there are two ways to do this 42a and 42b. Diol 44 can be made by pinacol dimerisation of cyclopentanone 43 while diol 45 would be the product of dihydroxylation of the alkene 46. 

Since the major alkene product B yields only cyclopentanone, C5H8O, on ozonolysis, B and A contain two rings. A therefore has no double bonds. 

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