“…The first description of such a reaction was demonstrated by the contraction of the tropolone ring of colchicine to benzene, known as the colchicine-allocolchicine rearrangement . Later, it was discovered that other cycloheptatrienes, oxepines, 1,4-oxazepines, 3H-1-benzazepines, − 1,4-benzodiazepines, and 1,4- and 1,5-benzothiazepines also undergo similar transformations. Despite this rearrangement, with aromatization being characteristic of various types of unsaturated seven-membered rings, it remains poorly understood.…”