Organic Reactions, Volume 58
Publisher: Wiley
Published: July 20, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 776
ISBN-13: 9780471105909
First sentence: Almost 30 years after Emschwiller prepared IZnCH2I, Simmons and Smith discovered that the reagent formed by mixing a zinc-copper couple with CH2I2 in ether could be used for the stereospecific conversion of alkenes to cyclopropanes (Eq. 1).