“…Despite convincing data regarding the dominant role of high pressure in a previous paper, 78 there are reports expressing the possibility, in general, of carrying out the same transformations with only thermal activation. For example, the interaction of highly reactive hexafluoroacetone 79 or 2-oxocyanoacetic acid ethyl ester 80 with 1-ethoxybuta-1,3-diene ( 104 , R 2 = H) led to similar pyrans in high yields, even at r.t.…”