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Xiaoyuan Ding1, Son T Nguyen1, John D Williams1, Norton P Peet1.
Abstract
Diels-Alder reactions of five-membered heterocycles containing one heteroatom with an N-arylmaleimide were studied. Cycloaddition of 2,5-dimethylfuran (4) with 2-(4-methylphenyl)maleimide (3) in toluene at 60 °C gave bicyclic adduct 5. Cycloadditions of 3 with 2,5-dimethylthiophene (11) and 1,2,5-trimethylpyrrole (14) were also studied. Interestingly, the bicyclic compound 5 cleanly rearranged, with loss of water, when treated with p-toluenesulfonic acid in toluene at 80 °C to give 4,7-dimethyl-2-p-tolylisoindoline-1,3-dione (6).Entities:
Keywords: Diels-Alder reactions; acid-catalyzed reactions; dienes; dienophiles
Year: 2014 PMID: 25838605 PMCID: PMC4378267 DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2014.10.114
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Tetrahedron Lett ISSN: 0040-4039 Impact factor: 2.415