Microwave-Based Reaction Screening: Tandem Retro-Diels–Alder/Diels–Alder Cycloadditions ofo-Quinol Dimers

Competitive retro-cycloaddition reaction in fullerene dimers connected through pyrrolidinopyrazolino rings.

Competitive retro-cycloaddition in [60]- and [70]fullerene homodimers (1a,1c) as well as [60]/[70]heterodimer (1b), linked through 2-pyrazolinopyrrolidino bridges, has been studied by means of HPLC, mass spectrometry, and theoretical calculations at the density functional theory (DFT) level by using the two-layered ONIOM approach. The results of these investigations indicate that the retro-cycl...

The Retro-Hydroformylation Reaction.

Hydroformylation, a reaction that adds carbon monoxide and dihydrogen across an unsaturated carbon-carbon multiple bond, has been widely employed in the chemical industry since its discovery in 1938. In contrast, the reverse reaction, retro-hydroformylation, has seldom been studied. The retro-hydroformylation reaction of an aldehyde into an alkene and synthesis gas (a mixture of carbon monoxide...

Screening of Chiral Diels-Alder Catalysts by Mass Spectrometric Monitoring of the Retro Reaction

The first reported anionic oxy retro-ene reaction.

Treatment of the diol 6 with KH and 18-C-6 at room temperature gives the cyclopentenone 7 in good yields. Mechanistic analysis reveals that this is the first case of an anionic oxy retro-ene reaction followed by a tandem intramolecular aldol condensation. Reaction: see text.

Retro-reaction of singly bonded La@C82 derivatives.

Retro-reaction of radical monoadducts of a paramagnetic endohedral metallofullerene, La@C(2v)-C(82), is shown using thermal reaction in the presence of a radical trapping reagent, affording pristine La@C(2v)-C(82) in high yield (96%).