Chemistry Letters, Vol.36, No.1, 68-69, 2007
Ultracentrifuge-mediated Diels-Alder reaction in a two-phase system of water and chloroform
Dramatic acceleration of the Diels-Alder reaction of acrylate ester or methacrolein with cyclopentadiene has been observed under ultracentrifugation conditions in the presence of water, when water-CHCl3 two-phase system was employed. The Diels-Alder reaction proceeds in the lower organic phase under ultracentrifugation-induced high pressure with the upper water phase acting like a weight.