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Fluorination of Methylenecyclopropanes for Preparing Alkenyl Fluorides

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Yu, LZ., Shi, M. (2018). Fluorination of Methylenecyclopropanes for Preparing Alkenyl Fluorides. In: Hu, J., Umemoto, T. (eds) Fluorination. Synthetic Organofluorine Chemistry. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1855-8_37-1

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