Haloalkynes cleave one bond at the amine bridgehead to produce ynamines 9 or amides 10. A number of new substitution products have been obtained with phenylbromo-or phenylchloroacetylene and 1, 4-diazobicyclo [2.2. 2] octane (Dabco), brucine, dihydrobrucine, quinuclidine, as well as with 2 '-(3-chloro-1, l-dimethyl-2-propyny1oxy) tetrahydropyran and Dabco. Rate data for the second-order reactions of several halides ...