[reaction: see text] The first examples of highly diastereoselective and asymmetric Diels-Alder cycloadditions of in situ generated masked o-benzoquinones (MOBs) with chiral racemic and homochiral furans bearing a chiral center in the alpha-position leading to highly functionalized diastereomeric/enantioselective tricyclic heterocycles and chiral tricyclic gamma-lactones are described.
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