Organic Reactions at High Pressure

Abstract

The utility of high pressure for the understanding of chemical reactions and its applications in organic synthesis is demonstrated for pericyclic reactions (cycloadditions, Cope rearrangements, electrocyclizations and intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions). With the example of the peptide coupling it is shown that pressure is a valuable tool for the control of other reactions than pericyclic reactions, too.