Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 65(49), p. 7201, 2013
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc44312d
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The gem-difluoromethylene (CF2) group significantly accelerates ring-closing metathesis of 1,8-nonadienes relative to the methylene (CH2) group demonstrating similar rate accelerations to that observed for the classic Thorpe-Ingold substituents, diester malonates and ketals.