In the two previous papers in this series' it was shown that hydrogen fluoride was an efficient agent to promote the reaction between either olefins and aliphatic halides and aromatic compounds. Of considerable interest is the reaction of cyclopropane and benzene. Ipatiefl and Grosse2 carried out this reaction using aluminum chloride and found that only the normal propylbenzenes were formed. We have used hydrogen fluoride to cause the same ...
[Kolotuchin, Sergei V.; Fenlon, Edward E.; Wilson, Scott R.; Loweth, Colin J.; Zimmerman, Steven C. Angewandte Chemie, 1995 , vol. 107, # 23/24 p. 2873 - 2876]