Examples of highly efficient kinetic resolutions with the bicyclic chiral cyclopentadiene 1 and several selected cyclic dienophiles are reported. In combination with a thermal retro-Diels-Alder process this procedure provides easy access to both enantiomers of these dienophiles.
Examples of highly efficient kinetic resolutions with the bicyclic chiral cyclopentadiene 1 and several selected cyclic dienophiles are reported. In combination with a thermal retro-Diels-Alder process this procedure provides easy access to both enantiomers of these dienophiles.
Goeres, Markus; Winterfeldt, Ekkehard, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions I, 1994, # 24, p. 3525 - 3532