The first intramolecular silene Diels–Alder reactions

The first intramolecular silene Diels–Alder reactions†

Michal Czyzewski,^a Jonathan D. Sellars,^a Tamaz Guliashvili,^b Julius Tibbelin,^b Lisa Johnstone,^a Justin Bower,‡^c Matthew Box,^c Robert D. M. Davies,^c Henrik Ottosson*^b and Patrick G. Steel*^a

* Corresponding authors

^a Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, Durham, UK
E-mail: p.g.steel@durham.ac.uk
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^b Department of Chemistry - BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, S-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
E-mail: henrik.ottosson@kemi.uu.se

^c Astra Zeneca, Alderley Park, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, UK

The synthesis of silaheterocycles through the first examples of an intramolecular silene Diels–Alder reaction is described.