On the origin of alternating Diels-Alder reactivity in [n]dendralenes

Paddon-Row, Michael; Sherburn, Michael

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On the origin of alternating Diels-Alder reactivity in [n]dendralenes

Date

2012

Authors

Paddon-Row, Michael

Sherburn, Michael

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry

Abstract

G4(MP2) calculations on Diels-Alder reactions of [3]- and [4]dendralene have revealed that reactant dendralene conformer populations and closed-shell singlet bis-pericyclic transition states explain their different reactivities.