“…The adducts usually possess a six-membered carbocyclic ring containing one or two double bonds and may have in addition a 1,4-bridge consisting of one or two carbon atoms or a heteroatom. Aromatization is induced by dehydrogenation (2), dehydrohalogenation (3), deamination (4), pyrolytic elimination of substituents (5), or a 1,4-bridge (6), or fission of a 1,4-oxygen bridge followed by loss of H,O (7). Less general procedures for the annelation of readily available molecules to benzene rings include the catalytic trimerization of acetylenes (8), the reaction of pyrylium salts with nitromethane (9), or triphenylphosphinemethylene (lo), the condensation of pyrones with Grignard reagents (1 l), the ketovinylation of P-dicarbonyl compounds followed by intramolecular cyclization or further reaction with P-chlorovinyl ketones (12), and the reaction of enamines with esters of acetylenedicarboxylic acid (13).…”