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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 19.
Published in final edited form as: Acc Chem Res. 2015 Dec 21;49(1):115–127. doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00425

Figure 1.

Figure 1

(a) Steric interaction between the carbonyl and approaching olefin in the cyclopropanation reaction of acyclic α-diazoesters. (b) The approach of the olefin to a carbene derived from a cyclic α-diazoester is relatively unhindered due to the coplanarity of the carbene and carbonyl.