New Cyclohexadienone Derivatives: Preparation and Chiral Discrimination in High-Pressure Diels-Alder Cycloadditions

A wide range of cyclohexadienones has been synthesised in order to study their reactivity and their regio- and stereoselectivity with the enantiopure diene 1 under high-pressure conditions. Computational investigations were used to point out some parameters which affect the reactivity in this high chiral discrimination process. In addition, the resulting [4+2] cycloadducts allowed the preparation of new polyfunctional cyclohexenone derivatives.