R. Faust et C. Weber, TERMINALLY PROTECTED 1-PHENYL-1,5-HEXADIYNE-3,4-DIONES AS FIRST MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF DIALKYNYL-1,2-DIONES, Liebigs Annalen, (8), 1996, pp. 1235-1238
Reaction of lithiated 1-(1-ethoxy-3-phenyl-prop-2-ynyl)-1H-benzotriazo
le (3) with various acetylenic aldehydes followed by periodinane oxida
tion and hydrolysis yields terminally protected 1-phenyl-1,5-hexadiyne
-3,4-diones 7a-d as the first examples of dialkynyl-1,2-diones.