Arguments are presented that an ionic mechanism is operative in the Wittig reaction when a metal ion is a part of the transition state leading to oxaphosphetane formation but that formation of a spin paired diradical precedes oxaphosphetane formation in other cases.
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McEwen et al. (1989) studied this question.
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