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Description: Hexamethyl Dewar benzene rearranges to a pentamethylcyclopentadiene derivative under acidic conditions, and can be used to make organometallic compounds - see Kang & Maitlis (1968) J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 90(12): 3259-3261 for an example. Structures drawn in ChemDraw and saved in .PNG format using Microsoft Paint. Image uploaded to use on the Dewar benzene page.
Title: Hexamethyl Dewar benzene reacting with rhodium chloride under acidic conditions
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