Titanium tetrachloride, reaction with orthoesters

In agreement with the results obtained with the titanium alkoxide, titanium tetrachloride converts the 6-substituted alkene orthoester 49 into the expected cyclohexanone 48 in 88% yield, and Grignard reagents promote the carbocy-clization reaction and then react with the carbonyl functions of the products. In this way compound 49, on treatment with phenylmagnesium bromide, affords the diphenyl product 50 that has both of the phenyl groups equatorial (Scheme 11) [46]. 

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