Abstract
Abstract Regardless of the conditions, catalytic or thermal, lactones 1 and 8 undergo kinetically controlled Diels-Alder cycloadditions to cyclopentadiene with pronounced exoselectivity. The activation parameters are reported for both reactions. It is suggested that such exoselectivity is a general property of conformationally rigid cyclic cisoid dienophiles.
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