The use of heterogeneous catalysis in Diels-Alder reactions of N-acetyl-α,β-dehydroalaninates

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0040-4020(94)01008-N

Several solids have been tested as heterogeneous catalysts in the Diels-Alder reactions of the relatively unreactive dienophils methyl (1a) and (-)-menthyl (1b) α,β-dehydroalaninates with cyclopentadiene, which is the key step in the assymmetric synthesis