
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Marshall, PA 
A1  - Prager, RH 
T1  - Hydroboration-Oxidation of Benzocycloalkenes
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 1979
VL  - 32
IS  - 6
SP  - 1251
EP  - 1260
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9791251 
N2  - The products of the hydroboration-oxidation of the benzocycloalkenes (1 ; n = 1-5) with diborane and thexylborane have been studied. With indene, diborane yields 86% of indan-2-ol and thexylborane yields 99%. Each of the other benzocycloalkenes gives approximately 90% of the &#945;-alcohol with diborane, and increasing amounts (10-38%) of the &#946;-alcohol with thexylborane. Electronic factors are suggested to be paramount to explain the difference between indene and the other alkenes. A number of rearrangement reactions have been encountered during the synthesis of the alkenes. 
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