• Under conditions of kinetic enolate formation (LDA), alkylation occurs at the 6-position: the Stork-Danheiser kinetic alkylation procedure, which has found extensive use in alicyclic synthesis: J. Org. Chem., 38, 1775 (1973); Org. Synth. Coll., 7, 208 (1990) and references therein.
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Useful intermediate for the preparation of 3-alkyl- or aryl-2-cyclohexen-1-ones, by addition of organometallic reagents and subsequent hydrolysis: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 70, 2174 (1948); 72, 1645 (1950); Helv. Chim. Acta, 36, 482 (1963). For an example of this transformation in the total synthesis of axane sesquiterpenoids, see: J. Org. Chem., 61, 473 (1996):
