Three's a crowd: The combination of a Brønsted acid and a hydrogen‐bond donor cocatalyst was found to promote various ionic [2+4] cycloadditions under mild reaction conditions (see scheme; Ts=4‐toluenesulfonyl). Thiophosphoramides are the most effective cocatalysts because of the stronger counterion activation effect resulting from three, rather than two, hydrogen bonds involved in anion binding.
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