“…The exact nature of the fulvene moiety is dependent mostly on its substituents (e.g., EWG or EDG) relative to the other reactants [6,42,45,67,103,153,230]. Maleimides (including maleic anhydride) [55,71,92,96,150,176–177 179–184 186,192,229,231], dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD) and p -benzoquinone [60,150,159,164,175,211] derivatives [174,183,200,229] are often used as the complementary dienophiles (Scheme 14, reaction pathways (i), (ii) and (iii), respectively), as well as mono- and disubstituted acetylene derivatives, such as methyl propiolate [229] and dibenzoylacetylene [150].…”