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Diels-Alder reactions in aqueous media

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Prior to Breslow’s pioneering work in the early 1980s, the use of water as a solvent for the Diels-Alder reaction was a fairly rare occurrence. It is perhaps fitting that the earliest known example of such a reaction was actually reported by Diels and Alder themselves in 1931 [1].

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