• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.35 no.11
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• pp.3254-3260
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• 2014

Intramolecular Diels-Alder (IMDA) reaction of vinylarenes bearing a Z-alkenyl tether, prepared from Morita-Baylis-Hillman (MBH) adducts, afforded arene-fused isoindoline derivatives in good yields. Vinylfurans, vinylthiophenes, and vinylnaphthalenes could be used successfully as dienes, while vinylbenzene failed under the same reaction conditions.