For the first time a successful [2 + 4]‐cycloaddition of furan (**1**) with simple 1,4‐benzoquinones **2** has been realized.
High-pressure [2 + 4]-cycloaddition of dimethylmaleic anhydride to 3,4-dimethoxyfuran; synthesis of dimethoxycantharidin preliminary communication
✍ Scribed by Jamisz Jurczak; Tomasz Koz̀luk; Stanislaw Filipek; Conrad Hans Eugster
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Volume
- 65
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0018-019X
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
As an active diene (more active than furan itself), 3,4‐dimethoxyfuran (1) affords with many dienophiles the respective cycloadducts in a high yield [2]. It has recently been found that under thermal conditions 1 easily reacts with maleic anhydride and its monomethyl derivative, but not with dimethylmaleic anhydride (2) [3]. This is probably due to steric hindrance resulting from the location of two methyl groups on the double bond of the dienophile. Since all Diels‐Alder reactions in particular those with steric hindrance are pressure‐sensitive [4]. we resolved to perform the title reaction under conditions of static high pressure.
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