A cascade of reactions involving anchimeric assistance leads to a highly 'crowded' hexa(alkylcarboxy)benzene

G Hennrich; V M Lynch; E V Anslyn

A cascade of reactions involving anchimeric assistance leads to a highly 'crowded' hexa(alkylcarboxy)benzene

Chem Commun (Camb). 2001 Dec 7:(23):2436-7.

Authors

G Hennrich¹, V M Lynch, E V Anslyn

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1167, USA.

PMID: 12240002

Abstract

The substitution of hexabromomethylbenzene with 1-adamantyl carboxylate quantitatively leads to the corresponding hexacyl derivative via anchimeric assistance by the alkylcarboxy substituents.