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Upon treatment with 2.2 equivalents of butyllithium in diethyl ether (
-78 degrees C to r.t.), the substituted iodocyclopropanes 4-6 and 8 ar
e transformed into the functionalized spiro[2.4] heptanes 9-11 and 13,
respectively.