The Diels-Alder reaction is very important in Organic Chemistry. In fact, Otto Diels and Kurt Alder received the 1950’s Chemistry Nobel Prize for the discovery of this reaction back in 1928. You will see it quite often in organic synthesis … Read more
Let’s compare the following two Diels-Alder reactions: The first one is a reaction between a symmetrical diene and a dienophile and the second one is a reaction of an unsymmetrical diene and a dienophile. What is interesting here … Read more
When a cyclic diene is used in the Diels-Alder reaction, a bridged bicyclic compound is formed: This looks ordinary until we draw the product from a side view, which reveals some nice structures and interesting features of the … Read more
