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Contrasteric Diels-Alder reactions of 5-methyl-5-phenylcyclopentadiene
Ishida, Masaru,Itakura, Makoto,Tashiro, Hiroshi
, p. 1804 - 1807 (2008/09/18)
The frontier molecular orbital of 5-phenylcyclopentadiene was predicted on the basis of the orbital mixing rule to deform to favor the Diels-Alder reaction in a syn contrasteric manner. The prediction was substantiated experimentally by the reactions of 5