Authors: Jia Wang, Joshua H. Marks, Andrew M. Turner, Alexander M. Mebel, André K. Eckhardt, Ralf I. Kaiser
Published: 2023-04-10
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Oxirenes—highly strained 4π Hückel antiaromatic organics—have been recognized as key reactive intermediates in the Wolff rearrangement and in interstellar environments. Predicting short lifetimes and tendency toward ring opening, oxirenes are one of the most mysterious classes of organic transients, with the isolation of oxirene (