V. Bernardes et al., A CONVENIENT SYNTHESIS OF HEXACARBONYLDICOBALT COMPLEXES OF CHIRAL (NON-RACEMIC) TERMINAL ALKOXYACETYLENES, Journal of organometallic chemistry, 470(1-2), 1994, pp. 30000012-30000014
The hexacarbonyldicobalt complexes of chiral (non-racemic) unsubstitut
ed terminal alkoxyacetylenes have been synthesized for the first time
by a novel procedure that involves one-pot transformation of a chiral
alcohol to the corresponding trimethylsilylated alkoxy acetylene, foll
owed by complexation and protodesilylation (also one-pot). The synthes
is is efficient and amenable to the preparation of multigram quantitie
s.