Intramolecular addition of benzyl-lithium derivatives to norbornene rings

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Abstract
Although α-aryl substituents stabilize organo-lithium reagents in tetrahydrofuran, such derivatives can attack a norbornene double-bond intramolecularly to produce a more reactive, tricyclic s-alkyl-lithium that appears to abstract a proton preferentially from the solvent.