Problems and exercisesDiels-Alder Cycloaddition

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1. Table of adducts

Draw the structures of all the Diels-Alder adducts obtained when each diene (horizontal) reacts with each dienophile (vertical).

Table with eight dienes in the top row and ten dienophiles in the left column

2. A reactive diene?

Which of these dienes does not undergo the Diels-Alder reaction? a) 1,3-butadiene; b) (2Z,4Z)-2,4-hexadiene; c) cyclopentadiene; d) 2,3-dimethyl-1,3-butadiene.

3. Electron demand

Order by reactivity towards 1,3-butadiene: ethylene, methyl acrylate and maleic anhydride.

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