Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alberta, 2010. / Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on June 24, 2010). A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Dr. Marie E. Krafft, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 15, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains xvii, 123 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Bowling Green State University, 2005. / Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 79 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1984. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 323-333).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisor: Michael Krische. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed Aug. 10, 2007). Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

The first section of this thesis describes three model studies involving the synthesis of the divinylcyclopropanes (135), (136), and (137) and the subsequent thermal rearrangement of these compounds to provide the interesting tricyclic compounds (139), (140), and (141). [Formula Omitted] The second section of this thesis describes a formal total synthesis of the antitumor sesquiterpenoid (±)-quadrone (34). The synthesis is based on the chemistry developed in the model studies and involves the thermal rearrangement of the divinylcyclopropane (304) as the key step. The resulting product, compound (305), is- subsequently elaborated into the keto aldehyde (230), and since compound (230) has previously been converted into (t)-quadrone (34) by Burke and coworkers,¹⁰¹ the isolation of (230) comprises a formal total synthesis of the sesquiterpenoid. [Formula Omitted] The third section of this thesis describes a study involving the facile vinylmethylenecyclopropane rearrangement of enolates derived from various 7-exo-vinylbicyclo[4.1.0]heptan-2-ones. / Science, Faculty of / Chemistry, Department of / Graduate

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The investigation presented is in two parts: a study of the mixed dimerizations of halogenated ketenes with non-halogenated ketenes and a study of the rearrangements of 8-chloro-8-methylbicyclo {4.2.0} oct-2-en-7-ones.