B. Bouammali et al., A REGIOSPECIFIC SYNTHESIS OF 2-AZAANTHRAQUINON-3-ONES VIA A HETERO-DIELS-ALDER REACTION WITH BROMONAPHTHOQUINONES, Tetrahedron, 49(15), 1993, pp. 3125-3130
The Diels-Alder reaction between 2-azadienes and 2- or 3-bromo-5-subst
ituted naphthoquinones (R3=OH, OAc, OMe) led to a regiospecific synthe
sis of the corresponding 2-azaanthraquinon-3-ones. The results indicat
e that the atom exerts a stronger regiochemical control in these cyclo
additions than the 5-substituent.