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organic compounds
It is shown that reaction of 1-butylpyrrole successively with N-bromosuccinimide then nitric acid gives 3,4-dibromo-1-butylmaleimide since the latter then undergoes Diels-Alder cycloaddition with cyclopentadiene to give the title compound C13H15Br2NO2