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SUBMITTER: Townsend SD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3396883 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20120618 25
α,β-Unsaturated imides, formylated at the nitrogen atom, comprise a new and valuable family of dienophiles for servicing Diels-Alder reactions. These systems are assembled through extension of recently discovered isonitrile chemistry to the domain of α,β-unsaturated acids. Cycloadditions are facilitated by Et(2)AlCl, presumably via chelation between the two carbonyl groups of the N-formyl amide. Applications of the isonitrile/Diels-Alder logic to the IMDA reaction, as well as methodologies to mo ...[more]