[reaction: see text] The cation radical Diels-Alder and cyclobutanation reactions of cis- and trans-1,2-(diaryloxy)ethenes with a cyclic and an acyclic diene have been found to be stereospecific, in accord with a concerted cycloaddition mechanism.
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Bauld et al. (1999) studied this question.
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