Azulene reacts with carbanions bearing a leaving group according to the vicarious nucleophilic substitution (VNS) scheme. Treatment of 6‐chloroazulene with such carbanions affords the VNS reaction and nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) products. magnified image
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