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The reaction of 2-cyclopropylthiophene with mercuric acetate in methanol takes place only in the thiophene ring. 5-Methyl-2-cyclopropylthiophene undergoes mercuration in both the heterocyclic ring and in the three-carbon ring (the Levina reaction).
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Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 175–179, February, 1984.
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Mochalov, S.S., Surikova, T.P., Zakharova, V.D. et al. Reaction of 2-cyclopropylthiophenes with mercuric acetate. Chem Heterocycl Compd 20, 139–143 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00506281
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