I am attempting to find a mechanism for this product:
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Any organic compound containing up to 7 carbon atoms may be incorporated into the product and any other reagent may be used.
I thought about starting from 1,3-heptadiene, brominating and using organopalladium chemistry to form 2-methyl-1-cyclohexene. However, wouldn't the bromination add a bromine to both double bonds?
Then I thought about starting with 2-methyl-1-cyclohexene itself. However, I'm unsure how to add the hexene group onto the ring. I thought about doing an organopalladium reaction, however this would first require a bromination of the ring, which would destroy the double bond. Thus, it doesn't work.
I'm really not sure how to do this.
Can anyone help?