Ct. Lin et al., Facial stereoselective Diels-Alder cycloadditions of a sesquibicyclo[2.2.2]octadiene-fused maleic anhydride with exocyclic 1,3-butadienes, TETRAHEDRON, 56(30), 2000, pp. 5383-5390
The Diels-Alder cycloadditions of facially dissymmetric sesquibicyclo [2.2.
2] octadiene-fused maleic anhydride 1 with exocyclic 1,3-butadienes have be
en studied. The reactions proceeded via syn-side (relative to the etheno-br
idge in 1) attack of the diene upon 1. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All r
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