Self-Induced Diastereoselective Oxidation of Vinyl Sulfides Bearing a Chiral Hydroxy Group as a Way of Preparation of Optically Active Sulfinyl Dienophiles and Their Use in the Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reaction to Cyclopentadiene

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo00359a014

Dienophiles 4,5,4' and 5' add with excellent diastereoselectivity to cyclopentadiene as a result of the fact that they assembled most features that are known to govern facial selectivity.Their synthesis entails stereoselective Michael addition of hydroxyt