Addition of norbornene derivatives to racemic mixtures of chiral tungsten–carbene complexes is shown to lead to the formation of transoid diastereoisomeric tungstacyclobutanes that can be distinguished by 1H n.m.r. spectroscopy; cisoid structures, though formed, are too unstable to be observed.
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Kress et al. (1989) studied this question.
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