The four-membered ring in kinetically stabilized tetra-tert-butylcyclobutadiene has sides of almost equal length and is also folded. Perhaps even cyclobutadiene itself is “stabilized” by ring folding.—Derivatives previously studied have two long and two short sides.
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Irngartinger et al. (1980) studied this question.
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