Chromium-Catalyzed Arylmagnesiation of Alkynes Kei Murakami Hirohisa Ohmiya Hideki Yorimitsu Koichiro Oshima 10.1021/ol0703938.s001 https://acs.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Chromium_Catalyzed_Arylmagnesiation_of_Alkynes/3013447 Arylmagnesiation of unfunctionalized alkynes in the presence of catalytic amounts of chromium(II) chloride and pivalic acid proceeds with high stereoselectivity. The alkenylmagnesium intermediate reacts with various electrophiles to afford the corresponding tetrasubstituted olefins in good yields. 2007-04-12 00:00:00 presence yield AlkynesArylmagnesiation chromium unfunctionalized alkynes chloride electrophile stereoselectivity alkenylmagnesium Arylmagnesiation tetrasubstituted olefins pivalic acid proceeds