Cyclopentadiene reacting with methacrolein to form different norbornene enantiomers
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Asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction of cyclopentadiene and methacrolein. The chiral acyloxyborane catalyst (CAB) helps control the stereochemical outcome of this cycloaddition reaction. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)
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Cyclopentadiene reacting with methacrolein to form different norbornene enantiomers
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