Alkyl β-phenylsulphonylacrylates have been made as geometrically pure iosmers; the Z-isomer reacts with dienes in Diels-Alder cycloadditions to afford the opposite regiochemistry to that observed with the E-isomer and this provides a useful method for reversing normal carbonyl directing effects.
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Buss et al. (1987) studied this question.