HELVETICA CHIMICA ACTA, cilt.89, sa.6, ss.1246-1253, 2006 (SCI-Expanded)
The hydroperoxy endoperoxide 3, obtained by photooxygenation of isotetralin (= 1,4,5,8-tetrahydronaphthalene; 1), was reduced with thiourea, and the resulting intermediate 4 was converted, after acetylation with acetyl chloride, to the interesting, double-chlorinated acetate 5 in an unprecedented tandem reaction (Scheme 1). The structures and relative configurations of 3 and 5 were determined by NMR spectroscopy and by single-crystal X-ray-diffraction analyses (Figs. 1 and 2, resp.). A mechanistic rationalization for the conversion of 4 to 5 is proposed (Scheme 2).