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William R. Moore; John B. Hill
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Article
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1970
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Elsevier Science
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French
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While the reaction of the dibromocarbene adduct of trimethylethylene with methyllithium gives only trimethylallene, the dibromocarbene adduct of tetramethylethylene reacts with methyllithium to give a nearly quantitative yield of 1,2,2-trimethylbicyclobutane.' We have examined a number of other syst