“…The size of the shielding effects in the bicyclo[1.1.0]butane system of 27 seems to indicate an electron donation by the oxygen atom. Similar, although smaller, influences are observed upon substitution of the H-7exo of 1 with a fluorine atom as in 48.13 Since the unoccupied Walsh orbitals (36) of fluorocyclopropane (X = CHF, E = 2.17 eyi5b,c) an<¿ thiirane S-oxide (X = SO, E = -0.12 eV15b) have lower energies than those of cyclopropane and thiirane, respectively (vide supra), the interaction 35 should be improved in 27 and 48 relative to that of 26 respectively. Consequently, the C-3 resonances of 27 and 48 should appear downfield from those of 26 and 1, respectively.…”