I. Yavari et al., SYNTHESIS OF DENSELY FUNCTIONALIZED N-HYDROXYPYRROLES MEDIATED BY VINYLTRIPHENYL PHOSPHONIUM SALT, Synthetic communications, 26(23), 1996, pp. 4495-4499
Protonation of the reactive 1:1 intermediates produced in the reaction
between triphenylphosphine and dialkyl acetylenedicarboxlates by buta
ne-2,3-dione monoxime leads to vinyltriphenylphosphonium salts, which
undergo intramolecular Wittig reaction to produce dialkyl 2,3-dimethyl
-N-hydroxypyrrole-4,5-dicarboxylates in fairly high yields.