“…356,357 Investigations on the influence of coordinated metal fragments on the reactivity of "remote", uncoordinated 1,3-diene moieties in cycloaddition reactions have been performed by several groups. Vogel, Roulet, et al [595][596][597][598][599] have prepared extensive series of stereochemically well-defined mono-and bis-metalcoordinated complexes of (poly)cyclic polyenes with exocyclic s-cis-butadiene groups, such as 371-373. The rates, [600][601][602][603] stereo-and regioselectivities 603 of the free and differently (exo/endo) metal complexed polyenes in Diels-Alder additions with symmetrical and unsymmetrical dienophiles have been studied.…”