Table 3. Ylidene-Bridge Ring-Strain Effects on YND–BME Fragmentation Kinetics.
Our previous report23 provided kobs values from linear fits of the curved integrated rate data for the fragmentation of the mixture of diastereomers taken to 90% completion. Herein, we report more representative kobs values obtained from the reaction taken to 50% completion.
Diastereomer ratios were determined from 1H NMR resonances of alkene protons.
1H NMR resonances for the signals corresponding to d1 and d2 were slightly overlapping.

