Aromatic dianionic oxy-Cope rearrangement of 1,2-dinaphthyl-1,2-diols of acyclic diketones

Chemistry Section, Shinas College of Technology, Shinas, Oman

P.G. and Research Department of Chemistry, The New College, Chennai-600 014, India

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Manuscript received 18 August 2006, revised 27 August 2007, accepted 6 November 2007

We report the first instance where 1,2-dinaphthyl-1,2-diols of benzil and biacetyl undergo aromatic dianionic oxy-Cope rearrangement where the π bonds of the two naphthyl rings form the 1,5-hexadiene system necessary for oxy-Cope rearrangement.