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Treatment of triphenylbismuth difluoride with alkynyldiisopropoxyboranes in
the presence of BF3. OEt2 in CH2Cl2 gives alkynyltriphenylbismuthonium tet
rafluoroborates, which react with sodium p-toluenesulfinate in dual reactio
n modes depending on the solvents employed.