“…As expected, dienophiles with different structures and steric deand phenylacetylenes [ Table 6: 43 (ρ ϭ Ϫ0.67), 7 (ρ ϭ Ϫ0.58)] are used as dienophiles. For styrene and phenyl-mands have poorer correlation coefficients, while the comparison of dienophiles with similar steric properties leads acetylene the highly negative values for the activation entropy ∆S ϭ Ϫ42 and ∆S ϭ Ϫ31 (cal mol Ϫ1 K Ϫ1 ) are to quite satisfying r values: (a) Figure 2 presents a comparison of all dienophiles included in this study for dimethyl also in agreement with a highly ordered rate-determining 1,2,4,5-tetrazine-3,6-dicarboxylate (1, R ϭ CO 2 CH 3 ) and studies [1,13,16] . Predictions can thus be made for the reactivity of systems not yet studied kinetically, which may be of 1,2,4,5-tetrazine (2).…”