Nitroso-Dienophile Additions to Dendralenes: A Short Synthesis of Branched Aminosugars

Ruomeng Wang,† Gomotsang Bojase,† Anthony C. Willis,†,§ Michael N. Paddon-Row,*,‡ and Michael S. Sherburn*,†

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ol302619r

This paper serves as a good example of [n]dendralene reactivity.  These might be useful as Diels-Alder crosslinking agents, although the reactivity of the "dienes" embedded within the dendralene is not necessarily equivalent (so equivalent reactivity of termini might not hold).