The cleavage of ethers by benzyne
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Gary D. Richmond; Wolfgang Spendel
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Article
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1973
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Elsevier Science
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French
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Recently, reports have appeared which describe the cleavage of diethyl ether with highly electrophillc tetrachlorobenzyne and tetrafluorobenzyne to give ethylene and the corresponding 2,3,4,5-tetr&alophenetole. 192 Although unsubstituted benzyne is thought to undergo nucleophlllc attack by ethers to