F. Scheufler et Me. Maier, On the Diels-Alder reaction of allenes bearing a diphenylphosphoryl or (trichloromethyl)sulfonyl substituent, EUR J ORG C, (23), 2000, pp. 3945-3948
Diels-Alder reactions of two allenes, diphenyl(1,2-propadienyl)phosphane ox
ide (4) and 1,2-propadienyltrichloromethyl sulfone (7), with cyclic dienes
were studied. While 4 only reacted with cyclopentadiene, to provide the end
o adduct 5, the allene 7 proved to be much more reactive. Thus, the cycload
dition between 7 and N-Boc-pyrrole gave a mixture of the endo and exo adduc
ts 9. The observed reactivities could be rationalized by semiempirical MO c
alculations.