Chemistry Letters, Vol.40, No.10, 1192-1194, 2011
Expeditious Modular Assembly of Multisubstituted Cyclohexanes via Dioxanone-Dienes
An effective route to multisubstituted cyclohexanes has been developed by exploiting the Diels-Alder reaction of easily available dienes within a dioxanone moiety with electron-deficient dienophiles.