Talk:Aza-Diels–Alder reaction

Just an opinion here...I think it would look a lot better if you wrote the second and third generic Aza Diels-Alder reactions with two separately drawn dienophiles and two separately drawn plus symbols. Thanks for your consideration. :Leeannedy 23:16, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

"Aza-Diels-Alder" mechanism
"Diels-Alder" implies a one step percyclic conserted reaction, but the mechanism shown for the "aza-Diels-Alder" on this page is stepwise – meaning it is not. What is depicted instead is something like a Robninson-Mannich annulation reaction. Both an "aza-Diels-Alder" and a "Robninson-Mannich annulation reaction" can have the same products but what differs for choosing the appropriate reaction label/name is the underlying mechanism (stepwise v.s. concerted). This may sound like an insignificant nit-pick but it actually has pretty significant claim for the publishability of reactions especially for bio-catalysts and enzymes. For instance I am reviewing a paper right now making claims of an aza-Diels-Alder when it has a stepwise mechanism because the authors know this will give undo significance to their biocatalyst. Trying to figure out where this misconception stems and has spread from I seem to have found myself here on this page...149.155.222.31 (talk) 14:50, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Possible reorganization/merge/rename discussion
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry. DMacks (talk) 16:27, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I propose to merge Imine Diels–Alder reaction into this article. The focus of each article are pretty similar.--Smokefoot (talk) 14:29, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Support. The "imine" topic is exactly one of the three variants of the "aza" topic (and the one that has substantive content in the aza page, though not written clearly enough for lay readers to recognize). While the imine case is a self-contained subtopic, there does not seem to be enough truely novel content to say about it to merit an own article. DMacks (talk) 14:35, 30 April 2024 (UTC)