“…Moreover, it was not clear from our earlier experiment [4], what course constrained cycloheptenyl halides would take, as it was thought that the terms quasi-axial or equatorial would not have the same meaning for the seven membered ring. In fact, reduction of exo-2,3-dichlorobicyclo[4.2.l]non-3-ene (10) gave solely the product of rearrangement, 3-chloro-bicyclo[4.2.l]non-2-ene (15), corroborating the mechanism previously proposed.…”