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Cavity-promoted Diels - Alder reactions of unsubstituted naphthalene: Fine reactivity tuning by cavity shrinkage
Fang, Yu,Murase, Takashi,Fujita, Makoto
, p. 1095 - 1097 (2015)
By finely tuning the cavity volume of a coordination cage, the Diels - Alder reactivity of aromatic compounds was enhanced. Even unsubstituted naphthalene could be made to undergo the Diels - Alder reaction with N-tert-butylmaleimide, with perfectly controlled syn-selectivity. M6L4 cages with standard and contracted cavities had opposite effects on the reaction: the former favored larger Diels - Alder substrates, whereas the latter favored smaller ones.
