u/shedmow

I somehow reconciled myself to [1.1.1]propellane, but this forbidden cyclopropane somehow manages to look even worse. The second reaction is undoubtedly driven by Satan's hand, which explains the unbearable stench of the product and why the mechanism of the elimination is impossible to draw. I first saw this moiety in some substituted naphthalene and genuinely thought (and hoped) that it was a joke

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