Using a specially designed prototype of a nonracemic aryne atropisomer with a low barrier to enantiomerization (ca. 36 kJ·mol-1), it was possible to determine the kinetic constant of its cycloaddition with furan in solution by a combination of theoretical calculations and experimental measurements. It was found that the reaction half-life of this aryne atropisomer in solution with 100 equivalents of furan as the trapping reagent is <150 ns at temperatures above -20 °C.