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. 2023 Jan 12;6:9. doi: 10.1038/s42004-022-00811-3

Fig. 1. Introduction to bicyclobutanes.

Fig. 1

A Properties of bicyclobutanes including bond lengths and angles, the high strain energy of bicyclobutanes in comparison to related structures, and the nature of the highest occupied molecular orbital of bicyclobutanes. B The most important general reactivities of the bicyclobutane scaffold: the addition of polar and radical nucleophiles and electrophiles and the insertion of various one- and two-atom fragments to bridged systems. C The structural classes of compounds that can be prepared from bicyclobutanes. aq axial, eq equatorial, HOMO highest occupied molecular orbital, EWG electron-withdrawing group, Nu nucleophile, El electrophile.