Water → HCID 12507348, compound

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A mixture of 3 liters of water, 150 g of an active Bakers Yeast, 15 g of edible yeast and 10 g of sucrose were stirred at 32° C. A solution of 24 g of 8,8-dichloro-bicyclo[4.2.0]oct-2-en-7-one in 170 ml of ethanol was added dropwise over a 15 minute period, followed by a further 5 g of sucrose. After stirring for 45 minutes the reaction mixture was centrifuged to remove the yeast, which was washed with acetone and the washings combined with the aqueous product from the centrifuge. The combined product was washed several times with ethyl acetate, the organic washings combined filtered and the solvent removed from the filtrate under reduced pressure. The residue was chromatographed on silica gel, eluting with 5% acetone in hexane, initially and gradually increasing the proportion of acetone to 100%, giving 4.0 g of (1S,6R)-8,8-dichlorobicyclo[4.2.0]oct-2-en-7-one (4) as a liquid, [α]D =-78.7° (C=0.8, CHCl3), and 8.8 g of crude (1R,6S,7S)-8,8-dichlorobicyclo[4.2.0]oct-2-en-7-ol (5), which was recrystallized from hexane to give 6.4 g of pure (5), m.p.=86°-7° C., [α]D =-217.1° (C=0.6, CHCl3).

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