Can an organic compound undergo ring contraction to give more stable carbocation? Throughout my journey in organic chemistry I’ve only seen ring expansions by a compound in order to attain more stability, but yesterday I thought about the following reaction.



I feel that ring contraction resulted in a more stable carbocation.

Can someone tell whether the idea behind this reaction is correct or not?
Your idea of ring contraction to give more stable carbocation is correct and similar contraction has observed before (see example 4 below):



Courtesy of Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lancing, MI: link to webpage