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Ring Strain


Iodine crystals are poured into a large cylinder. Like most alkenes, cyclohexene reacts only sluggishly with iodine. But when -pinene is poured into iodine, the exothermic reaction vaporizes iodine. The extra energy comes from relief of ring strain in the -pinene molecules.

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