Acid-catalysed rearrangements of some spiro cyclopropyl ketones
Abstract
The acid-catalysed ring opening of spiro-cyclopropyl ketones having a phenyl substituent at the 2-position of the cyclopropane ring occurred with cleavage of the C(1 )–C(2) bond whether or not this was the small-ring bond more overlapped with a p-orbital of the carbonyl group.