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The first cation to have a hetero[3]radialene resonance structure is present in the salt (1). Its formation can be rationalized in terms of an elimination/addition reaction proceeding via a nucleophilic carbene. Such reactions were hither-to unknown in the C system.
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Weiß et al. (1979) studied this question.
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