Cover Feature: Unveiling the Reaction Mechanism of Diels‐Alder Cycloadditions between 2,5‐Dimethylfuran and Ethylene Derivatives Using Topological Tools (ChemPhysChem 6/2025)

The Cover Feature shows how density functional theory was employed to unravel the bond-breaking and -forming steps along the reaction coordinate of the Diels–Alder reactions between 2,5-DMF and ethylene derivatives activated by electron-withdrawing substituents, thus demonstrating how the evolution of the distribution of electron density into basins unveils the reaction mechanism. More information can be found in the Research Article by B. Champagne and co-workers (DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400896).