The Lewis acids catalyzed aza-Diels-Alder reaction of methylenecyclopropanes with imines.
[reaction: see text] The methylenecyclopropanes can react with various imines to give the aza-Diels-Alder adducts in good yields in the presence of Lewis acids.
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State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 354 Fenglin Lu, Shanghai 200032, China. mshi@pub.sioc.ac.cn
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