Ring expansion of an antiaromatic beryllole: synthesis of novel five-, seven- and nine-membered beryllacycles.
Tröster, Tobias; Saha, Koushik; Roy, Dipak Kumar; Dewhurst, Rian D.; Braunschweig, Holger; Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 62 (2026) 5032–5036; doi:10.1039/d5cc05783c

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 Ring expansion of an antiaromatic beryllole: synthesis of novel five-,
 seven- and nine-membered beryllacycles.
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