Consequences of modulated precompression along reaction coordinates. Synthesis, crystallographic structural studies, and rate of intramolecular dyotropy in an extended series of syn-sesquinorbornene disulfones

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/ja00103a004

In order to produce a broad range of syn-sesquinorbornene disulfones, (Z)-1,2-bis(phenylsulfonyl)ethylene was added in Diels - Alder fashion (high-pressure conditions) to tricyclo[5.2.1.0^2,6]deca-2,5,8-trienes carrying isopropylidene or spirocy