Phosphonium tosylates as solvents for the Diels–Alder reaction

✍ Scribed by Petra Ludley; Nazira Karodia

• Book ID: 104230146
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 62 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)00064-8

✦ Synopsis

Phosphonium tosylates have been investigated as solvents for the Diels-Alder reactions of isoprene with methyl acrylate, but-3-en-2-one and acrylonitrile. The reactions with oxygen-containing dienophiles showed high regioselectivity.