ChemInform Abstract: Hydrogen Transfer Reactions. Part 9. Synthesis and Analytics of Selectively Deuterated 1,4‐Cyclohexadienes and 1,4‐Dihydronaphthalenes.

Abstract Diels‐Alder reaction of the selectively deuterated dienes (I) with the chloroacrylic acid (II) followed by CO 2 and HCl elimination gives the cyclohexadienes (III).