Sharon Chow

Nov 5, 2024 | pubs.rsc.org | Molecular Biosciences |Lawrence Gahan |Sharon Chow |Matthew D. Summersgill

Hyperstable alkenes: are they remarkably unreactive?† In 1981, Maier and Schleyer first identified a select number of cage bicyclic olefins (alkenes) as “hyperstable”, and predicted them to be “remarkably unreactive”, based solely on theoretical methods. Since that time only three ad hoc systems meeting the criteria of a hyperstable alkene have been reported in the literature.