The Procuration Of Cyclopentadiene And Maleic A

The methods and mechanisms described in this lab report outlined the procuration of cis-Norbornene-5,6-endo-dicarboxylic anhydride via cycloaddition of cyclopentadiene and maleic anhydride. To support this conclusion, the Diels-Alder mechanism theory is tied to the data and results, which show the procurement of the desired product.
To begin the experiment, the diene cyclopentadiene was obtained via fractional distillation from its stored dimer form, dicyclopentadiene. The reason the reagent is stored as a dimer is because as cyclopentadiene it is both a diene and a dienophile capable of reacting with itself. This phenomenon represents the side reaction of this experiment. To prevent the side reaction, cyclopentadiene was produced via fractional