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Nitrile oxides give predominantly 5-substituted isoxazolines even with very electron-deficient alkene dipolarophiles, but very electron-deficient alkyne dipolarophiles give substantial amounts of 4-substituted isoxazoles.
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Houk et al. (1977) studied this question.
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