What is a retro Diels Alder reaction?
1 Answer
Feb 3, 2016
It is literally the (microscopic) reverse direction of the Diels-Alder.
A relatively simple but interesting example is the cracking of the cyclopentadiene dimer:
The arrows are pretty much the reverse of what the forward direction shows. Instead of making two
This is a good way, for instance, of generating usually unstable compounds in a rigged fashion such that they are not so unstable.
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By the way, LTMP stands for lithium tetramethylpiperidide, and "rt" stands for "room temperature". So the example reaction can be done at