CF3-Substituted alkenes have been described to be good partners in Diels-Alder reactions with the Danishefsky's diene and in 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions with nitrones and non-stabilized azomethine ylides. The influence of the CF3-group on both the activation of the double bond and the stereochemistry of the cycloaddition has been evaluated. New CF3-substituted mono- and polycyclic compounds 4 and 7, highly functionalized isoxazolidines 18, 19, 22 and 23 and pyrrolidines 12, 13 and 16 have been prepared.
The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition between ethyl trifluoroacetoacetate and N-(benzylidene)methylamine N-oxide, performed in boiling toluene, leads regio- and stereo-selectively to an isoxazolidine, while the corresponding ethyl acetoacetate is found to be unreactive under the same conditions. On the other hand, alpha-trifluoromethylstyrene behaves as alpha-methylstyrene and affords two diastereoisomeric trifluoromethyl-substituted cycloadducts.
CF3-Substituted alkenes have been described to be good partners in Diels-Alder reactions with the Danishefsky's diene and in 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions with nitrones and non-stabilized azomethine ylides. The influence of the CF3-group on both the activation of the double bond and the stereochemistry of the cycloaddition has been evaluated. New CF3-substituted mono- and polycyclic compounds 4 and 7, highly functionalized isoxazolidines 18, 19, 22 and 23 and pyrrolidines 12, 13 and 16 have been prepared.