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SUBMITTER: Zhou YY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6467289 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20190201 6429
Cycloaddition reactions provide direct and convergent routes to cycloalkanes, making them valuable targets for the development of synthetic methods. Whereas six-membered rings are readily accessible from Diels-Alder reactions, cycloadditions that generate five-membered rings are comparatively limited in scope. Here, we report that dinickel complexes catalyze [4 + 1]-cycloaddition reactions of 1,3-dienes. The C<sub>1</sub> partner is a vinylidene equivalent generated from the reductive activation ...[more]