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Electrophilic cleavage of mixed-functionality tetraorgantin compounds by iodine reveals a complete reversal of the usually observed selectivity, i.e. alkyltin–carbon bonds are broken in preference to aryl- or vinyl-tin–carbon bonds; this unexpected result is explained by intramolecular assistance at tin.
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Jousseaume et al. (1987) studied this question.
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