title: Electrophilic behavior of the pi delocalized azepinium ion: Friedel-Crafts reactions with benzenes and five-membered aromatic heterocycles.
abstract: [reaction: see text] Although the reactivity of tropylium ion with aromatic substrates is low, the reaction of azepinium ion with aromatic substrates such as benzene, phenol, furan, and thiophene resulted in the formation of 2-aryl-2H-azepine as a major product. An exceptional result in the formation of ring-contracted product was observed in the reaction with pyrrole.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Okayama, Tsushima-Naka 3-1-1, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kubota
authors.forename: Kyosuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Satake
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okamoto
authors.forename: Masaru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kimura