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“Thermal” reactions at 10 K? How is it posible to achieve a thermal ring-opening of cyclopropane [Eq. (a)] and cyclopropene (both reactions have substantial energy barriers) at such extremely low temperatures? The answer is to be found in this communications.
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Maier et al. (1994) studied this question.
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