Download full text in PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... A facile synthesis of 2-vinylcyclobutanones consists of reductive lithiation of 1-phenylthio-1-methoxycyclopropanes ) addition of enals or enones to the resulting α-lithioethers, and acid catalyzed rearrangement of the allylic alcohols thus produced. ... JR Matz and T. Cohere accompanying paper and ...