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The Diels-Alder reaction is named after the German chemists Otto Diels and Kurt Alder of the University of Kiel. The awarding of the 1950 Nobel Prize in chemistry to these scientists attests to the importance and broad application of this reaction. Fringuelli and Taticchi have recently reviewed the reaction1.
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Stipanovic, R.D. (1992). Natural Product Biosynthesis Via the Diels-Alder Reaction. In: Petroski, R.J., McCormick, S.P. (eds) Secondary-Metabolite Biosynthesis and Metabolism. Environmental Science Research, vol 44. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3012-1_22
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