Yh. Liu et al., REDUCTIVE ELIMINATION OF ALPHA-ALKYNYL SUBSTITUTED ZIRCONACYCLOPENTENES - FORMATION OF CYCLOBUTENE DERIVATIVES, Chemical communications, (10), 1998, pp. 1133-1134
Reductive elimination of alpha-alkynyl substituted zirconacyclopentene
s, prepared from diaryldiynes and Cp2ZrEt2, proceeded upon heating or
in the presence of dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate to give alkynylcycl
obutene derivatives.