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The Nitrile Function of Tetracyanoethylene as Dienophile in Diels‐Alder Reactions

Klaus Burger, Herbert Goth

Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English · 1980 · 17 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

Surprising Diels-Alder reactions take place with the standard dienophile tetracyanoethylene and the heterodienes (1). Instead of the CC group, the CN groups functions as dienophile: this has not been observed previously in Diels-Alder reactions.

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