Fig. 9: Potential energy surface for the reactions of 8-pentacyclo[5.4.0.02,6.03,10.05,9]undecylidene carbene (12) and pentacyclo[5.5.0.04,11.05,9.08,12]dodec-2-yne (13).

A In the presence of diene 16. B In the presence of cyclohexene (35). See Supplementary Fig. 8 for a comprehensive analysis of the addition of diene 16 to alkylidene carbene 11 and alkyne 13, and Supplementary Fig. 9–13 for the addition of cyclohexene (35) to alkylidene carbene 11 and alkyne 13. Computed at DLPNO-CCSD(T)/CPCM(benzene)/def2-TZVPP//M06/CPCM(benzene)/def2-TZVP. See Supplementary Data 1 for the cartesian coordinates of the optimized structures.