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USE: Perfumes: having flower-like or green grass-like smells and being used for perfume composition, soap or cosmetics.
PREPARATION: For example, tricyclo[5,2,1,04,10]decane-2-one of formula II is reduced with lithium aluminum hydride to form the alcohol, which is dehydrated, or the compound is tosylated with p-toluenesulfonyl chloride i pyridine and the product is made to react with potassium t-butoxide in a solvent of dimethyl sulfoxide to form a compound of formula I where A is -CH=CH. Further, the olefin is subjected to oxo reaction to produce another compound of formula I where A is -CH2-CHCHO.
Bicyclo (2.2.1)-hept-5-enes (anes) (i), process for their preparation, their use as perfumes and perfume compositions containing the bicyclic compounds (i)