vinyl carbenes

Carbenes having a vinylic group on a carbenic carbon atom R2C=CRC:Rmesomer-arrowR2C+–CR=CR . E.g. H2C=CHC:H prop-2-en-1-ylidene.
See: 1,3-dipolar compounds
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1307 (Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactivity intermediates based on structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)) on page 1374