posted on 2009-11-20, 00:00authored byGagik G. Melikyan, Ryan Spencer, Edwin Abedi
Reduction of Co2(CO)6-stabilized bis-propargyl cations with cobaltocene occurs with high meso-diastereoselectivity (up to 97%), affording, upon decomplexation, meso-1,5-cyclodecadiynes, otherwise hardly accessible.