1‐Methylcycloprop‐2‐ene‐1‐carbonitrile in Tandem Alder—Ene and Diels—Alder Reactions.

The reactions of 1-methylcycloprop-2-ene-1-carbonitrile with cyclohexa-1,4-diene and alloocimene gave the corresponding 2:1 addition products as a result of consecutive (conjugate) Alder-ene and Diels-Alder reactions. 1-Methylcycloprop-2-ene-1-carbonitrile acts initially as enophile, and in the second step, as dieno- phile. The structure of the adducts was determined by X-ray analysis.