The Diels-Alder reaction of anthrone or 3-hydroxy-2-pyrone and methyl 4-hydroxy-2-butenoate proceeds efficiently by the use of phenylboronic acid as a template, giving the cycloadducts with high regio- and stereoselectivity.
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Narasaka et al. (1991) studied this question.