On the use of removable steric buttresses in cycloaddition reactions

Abstract

Use of bulky protecting groups, such as the trityl group, can be utilised to encourage cycloaddition reactions that otherwise do not proceed. Thus N-allylfurfurylamines, bearing the appropriate N-protecting group, can thermally cyclise; subsequent removal of the protecting group produces the thermodynamically unstable, free amine.

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