Lewis acid catalyzed Diels-Alder

Lewis acids catalyze Diels-Alder reactions. Do they enhance overlap between diene and dienophile orbitals and/ or do they reduce the HOMO/LUMO energy difference ... 

The Chiral Lewis Acid-catalyzed Diels-Alder Reaction 7... 

The Chiral Lewis Acid-catalyzed Diels-Alder Reaction 9 Fig. 1.1 CAB catalyst 3 and methacrolein Me... 

Although Lewis acid-catalyzed-Diels-Alder reacdons of enones are common, there are few repoiTS on the catalysis of Dieis-Alder reacdon of nltroalkenes The reacdon of nltroalkenes with alkenes in the presence of Lewis acids undergoes a different course of reacdon to give cyclic nltronates fsee Secdon 8 3 Knochei repotted an enhanced reacdvity and seiecdvity of the intramolecular Dieis-Alder reacdon using silica gei as Lewis acid in hexane fEq 8 19 ... 

Lewis-Acid-Catalyzed Diels-Alder Reaction... 

This chapter will mostly deal with the applications of the Lewis-acid-catalyzed Diels Alder reaction to organic synthesis and the influence of Lewis acids on reactivity, stereoselectivity and regioselectivity of the cycloadditions. 

Lewis-acid-catalyzed Diels-Alder reaction of 3-phenylthio-2- quinolinones with silox-ydiene. Synthesis of the intermediate for dynemicin A core [97]... 

Highly selective Lewis-acid-catalyzed Diels-Alder reactions of acyclic (Z)-1,3-dienes [104]... 

Fringuelli F., Piermatti O., Pizzo F., Vaccaro L. Recent Advances in Lewis-Acid Catalyzed Diels-Alder Reactions in Aqneons Media Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2001... 

Scheme 6.93 Organotungsten Lewis acid-catalyzed Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions.

Theoretical calculations have also permitted one to understand the simultaneous increase of reactivity and selectivity in Lewis acid catalyzed Diels-Alder reactions101-130. This has been traditionally interpreted by frontier orbital considerations through the destabilization of the dienophile s LUMO and the increase in the asymmetry of molecular orbital coefficients produced by the catalyst. Birney and Houk101 have correctly reproduced, at the RHF/3-21G level, the lowering of the energy barrier and the increase in the endo selectivity for the reaction between acrolein and butadiene catalyzed by BH3. They have shown that the catalytic effect leads to a more asynchronous mechanism, in which the transition state structure presents a large zwitterionic character. Similar results have been recently obtained, at several ab initio levels, for the reaction between sulfur dioxide and isoprene1. ... 

S. Otto, G. Boccaletti, J. B. F. N. Engberts, A Chiral Lewis-Acid-Catalyzed Diels-Alder Reaction. Water-Enhanced Enantioselectivity J. Am. Chem. Soc 1998, 120, 4238-4239. 

A more versatile method to use organic polymers in enantioselective catalysis is to employ these as catalytic supports for chiral ligands. This approach has been primarily applied in reactions as asymmetric hydrogenation of prochiral alkenes, asymmetric reduction of ketone and 1,2-additions to carbonyl groups. Later work has included additional studies dealing with Lewis acid-catalyzed Diels-Alder reactions, asymmetric epoxidation, and asymmetric dihydroxylation reactions. Enantioselective catalysis using polymer-supported catalysts is covered rather recently in a review by Bergbreiter [257],... 

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