Advances in the Diels-Alder Reaction: Synthesis of (±)-Lycoridine and of Dolabellatrienone
Cyclic dienes such as 1 are reluctant participants in Diels-Alder cycloaddition. W. Dean Harman of the University of Virginia has shown (J. Am. Chem. Soc. PMID:24761411 2006, 128, 1426. DOI:…