Copper- or iron-catalyzed oxidative rearrangement of bicy- clo[n.1.0]alkan-1-ols yields 3-hydroperoxycycloalkanones and/or bicyclic peroxyhemiketals, which are transformed into 2,3-epoxy- cycloalkanones by treatment with a base.
The bromination of 2-alkyl- and 2-phenyl-1-cycloalkanones with N-bromosuccinimide and subsequent dehydrobromination with aniline gave the corresponding 2-cycloalken-1-ones.
A photocatalytic synthesis of homoallyl ketones was achieved via a one-pot procedure starting from a Norrish Type I reaction of cyclopentanones, followed by a decatungstate-catalyzed hydroacylation of electron-deficient olefins by the resulting 4-pentenals. The site-selective formyl H-abstraction in the second step can be explained by radical polar effects in the transition state.