Catalytic strategies to trigger challenging Diels-Alder cyclisations under mild conditions

The Diels-Alder reaction is among one of the most powerful chemical transformation for making cyclohexene frameworks. However during the last century the understanding of steric and electronic effects occuring in thsi reaction increased a lot an many variants have been developed. One of those is the Dehydro-Diels-Alder reaction. The thesis will focus on the history of these reactions and projects able to reproduce them in mild conditions.