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Alkyl and aryl sulfides react with equimolecular amounts of p-toluenesulfonylacetylene in CH3CN at 0 degrees C or rt without the use of any catalytic reagent to give good yields of Z-2-sulfanylvinylsulfonyl derivatives with total diastereoselectivity. On the other hand, in the presence of 1.1 equiv of NaH in THF, the same reaction affords the corresponding E-diastereomer also with total diastereoselectivity.
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Diels-Alder reactions of the masked o-benzoquinone (MOB) 2 with vinylene carbonate (3), the bicyclic derivatives 4, 5, and 6, and the intramolecular version of the 2-hydroxymethylfuran-MOB Diels-Alder reaction are described. In addition, a theoretical study of the Diels-Alder reactions of MOBs with enol and thioenol ethers is presented.
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Domino metathesis of N-alkylated derivatives of (1S)-2-azanorborn-5-en-3-one allowed for the enantioselective synthesis of pyrrolizidine, quinolizidine, pyrrolidinoazepine, and pyrrolidinoazocine derivatives in a straightforward process.