“…Following this procedure, a total synthesis of natural pterocarpan edulane (101) has been achieved (scheme 35) [96]. Recently, microwave heating has been used to improve yields of this cycloaddition reaction catalyzed with Zn(II) [97]. The development of a general synthetic route to substituted 5 or 11-azapterocarpans (105¸106) and diazapterocarpans (107) via Lewis acid promoted reactions of mono and bisimides (102 and 103) with chromenes (88) and/or 1,2-dihydroquinolines (104), has been also described by Engler's group (scheme 36 and Table 3) [26,[98][99][100][101][102].…”