Slowly but surely the propellane nomenclature is being accepted.1Propellanes have been defined as tricyclic systems conjoined "in"2 or "by"3 a carbon-carbon single bond. In this Account we shall discuss only smallring propellanes, defined herein as those which contain five to ten carbon atoms in their carbocyclic skeleton.4Obviously, heterocyclic propellanes having, say, eight carbon atoms in their skeleton are of larger ring size than corresponding carbocyclic propellanes which may, at least on paper, potentially be produced from