Addition of bromine or of acids to anti-sesquinorbornene is more rapid and less readily reversible than that to the syn isomer, whereas other addition reactions proceeding by concerted or free-radical mechanisms show a small rate advantage for syn- sesquinorbornene and no reversibility. Tetracyanoethylene (TCNE) does not undergo cycloaddition with syn-or anti-sesquinorbomene, nor can any dipolar ion from TCNE and ...