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The cyclization of an aryllithium tethered to a methylenecycloalkane, generated from 2-(o-bromobenzyl)-1-methylenecycloalkanes 1, 2, and 3 by low-temperature lithium-bromine exchange, has been found to be a kinetically slow but thermodynamically favorable process that proceeds at a convenient rate in an exclusively 5-exo fashion when solutions of the aryllithium in n-heptane-di-n-butyl ether (9:1 v/v) are warmed to 45 degrees C. The cyclization affords stereoisomerically pure cis-fused products (7 and 8) when the methylenecycloalkane is five- or six-membered but it is less stereoselective when the methylenecycloalkane is seven-membered. The ring-closure of the aryllithium derived from 2-(o-bromobenzyl)-1-methylenecyclohexane (2) provides an experimentally convenient route to stereoisomerically pure 4a-substituted cis-hexahydrofluorenes in 60-90% isolated yield.

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The effect of catalyst on the yield of amine in the amination of three classes of arylzinc reagents with acetone oxime O-tosylate was investigated. Since they allowed the preparation of arylamines in excellent yields in the presence of a minimum amount of copper (I) or copper (II) compounds, the catalytic systems using copper (I) or copper (II) combined with a P-, N-or S-donor ligand were revealed to be the best catalysts for the electrophilic amination of arylzinc reagents with acetone oxime O-tosylate in the presence of DMPU.