“…The carbon polycyclic framework of tricyclic [6,5,5]-fused system is present in core skeleton of numerous natural products, hence, many synthetic strategies have been developed so far to this end. 78 Recently, in 2017, Shifa Zhu et al reported a [3+2] cycloaddition cascade synthesis of indanone-fused cyclopentanes which are analogues of all carbon tricyclic [6,5,5]-fused systems (Scheme 27 ). 8 They reacted substrates 161 and 162 in the presence of zinc iodide and dichloroethane as solvent.…”