a Dipartimento di Chimica Organica e Biologica, Università di Messina, Salita Sperone 31, 98166 Messina, Italy b Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Salerno, via Ponte don Melillo, I-84084 Fisciano, Salerno, Italy
Abstract:
The 10α,20β-bis(4-nitrophenyl)-calix4]pyrrole was found to act as an effective organocatalyst for the hetero Diels-Alder reaction of Danishefsky’s diene with aromatic aldehydes. This discovery is the first reported case of a calixpyrrole that exhibits organocatalytic activity.