In a broad sense, our group is interesting in using the unusual reactivity of strained molecules to build diverse types of structures.  We have found that stereocontrol is facile for reactions of cyclopropenes, and we are pursuing ways of translating this into the control of stereochemistry in acyclic systems.  Our approaches to this problem make use of our previously developed chemistry for adding carbon nucleophiles to cyclopropenes.  The result will be a simple and general way to introduce all-carbon quaternary stereocenters to acyclic molecules.

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