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156 Y. Aoyama<br />

Fig. 17. Suggested mechanism for the Diels-Al<strong>de</strong>r reaction catalyzed by host 29 as a microporous<br />

solid. Each cavity actually b<strong>in</strong>ds two molecules of both reactants. Only one molecule<br />

of each is shown here for clarity<br />

po<strong>in</strong>t of view, there are a couple of problems. One is efficiency. The activity of the<br />

present hydrogen-bon<strong>de</strong>d network host 29 is much smaller than those of soluble<br />

Lewis acid catalysts conventionally used <strong>in</strong> organic syntheses. The other is generality.<br />

Although the acrole<strong>in</strong> reaction goes <strong>in</strong> a catalytic manner, this is not the<br />

case for otherwise closely related alkyl acrylates. For example, as noted above,<br />

ethyl acrylate forms a similar ternary adduct 29 ◊ 2(dienophile)◊(diene), which

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