“…[31] In analogy with the reactivity patterns of Diels-Alder (DA) reactions (normal, neutral and inverse), [35] the 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of BNO belong to the "neutral" type, in which both of the two Frontier Orbital (FO) interactions are influential, giving rise to the characteristic U-shaped plots of the logarithms of the relative rates vs. the ionization potentials of the dipolarophiles. [19,36] In the cycloadditions between BNO and the N-formyl-2-oxa-3-azabicyclo derivatives B and E the two FO gaps between the addends are almost identical, as are the global electrophilicities ω ( Table 4). The global electrophilicity index (ω) [37] has recently been shown to be a valuable descriptor for the assessment of the reactivity of DA [38] and 1,3-dipolar [39] cycloadditions, and the difference in the global electrophilicity index (∆ω) of the diene/dienophiles or 1,3-dipole/dipolarophile interacting pairs is related to the polar character of the mechanism.…”