Superoxide chemistry revisited: synthesis of tetrachloro-substituted methylenenortricyclenes

• Basavaraj M. Budanur and
• Faiz Ahmed Khan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2531–2538, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.264

• . Keywords: BHT; dehydrohalogenation/rearrangement; Friedel–Crafts acylation; methylenenortricyclene; superoxide ion; Introduction The chemistry of the superoxide ion (O2−·) has been a subject of growing interest because of its presence in all aerobic organisms as a respiratory intermediate [1][2][3][4][5