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Methylenecyclopropane, on treatment with an organic peracid, undergoes quantitative oxidation into oxaspiropentane; this so far unknown epoxide is converted into cyclobutanone by a catalytic amount of lithium iodide.
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Salaün et al. (1971) studied this question.