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Aromatic Spiranes XX [1]: Syntheses of Dimethylsubstituted 2-Carboxymethyl-indan-1-ones and Benzylchlorides as Synthones for Syntheses of di- to tetramethylsubstituted Spirobiindandiones
Neudeck
, p. 185 - 200 (1996)
The isomeric dimethyl methylbenzoates 5, obtained from the bromides via Grignard reactions with dimethylcarbonate, were reduced with LiAlH4 to the hydroxymethyl derivatives 6. The latter were then transformed both to the benzylchlorides 7 (with SOCl2) and to the aldehydes 8 (with pyridinium chlorochromate). Knoevenagel-Doebner reaction of 8 afforded the acrylic acids 9 which (after hydrogenation to 11) were cyclized to the desired indanones 12 with polyphosphoric acid. On the other hand, 12c and 12e were prepared from dimethyl 3-chloropropiophenone (14) by warming with sulfuric acid. After NaH-catalyzed reaction with dimethylcarbonate, the indanones 12 gave the ketoesters 15 which then could be hydrogenated to the indanes 16. All reactions proceeded with satisfactory to excellent yields (60-90%).
