Surprisingly, heating a solution of eyelobutane 1 in toluene afforded selectively the (R,S) stereoisomer of compound 2. A cascade of pericyclic reactions is proposed to explain the formation of this remarkably stable para-quinodimethane, which was characterized by X-ray crystallography.
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