Incarceration strongly increases the rate of the thermal decomposition of diazirine 1 to yield carbene 2. The increase of the inner phase rate is rationalized by a stabilization of the transition state through dispersion interactions between the breaking C−N bonds and one of the highly polarizable arene rings of the surrounding host 3.
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