Diphenylcarbene reacts with olefins by both addition and abstraction. The partitioning of the reaction between these paths is determined largely by steric factors. The stereochemistry of addition has been determined in a system favorable to triplet reaction. With acetylenes, both addition and abstraction occur, but the intermediate generated by addition is often diverted from a path leading to the usual cyclopropene and gives indene instead.
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