Unsaturated bicyclic endoperoxides are efficiently cyclopropanated with excess diazomethane in the presence of catalytic Pd(OAc) in a stereoselective manner. This method represents a new peroxide preserving transformation. Whereas the unsaturated endoperoxides in the [2.2.1] series are attacked by the carbene from the face, the analogs with larger bridges are preferentially attacked from the face to the peroxo bridge. Only in the case of the benzannelated [2.2.2] system the attack occurs exclusively from the face proximal to the benzene ring. Certain strained cyclopropanated endoperoxides are reduced by diazomethane to give -diols. 1-Methylfuran endoperoxide gives rise to -1-formyl-2-acetylcyclopropane in excellent yield.
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