Reductive McMurry-type dicarbonyl coupling of certain aryl and α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds to give alkenes can be accomplished using chlorotrimethylsilane and zinc by a novel mechanism which does not involve pinacolic coupling and diol deoxygenation.
A. K. Banerjee, M. C. S. de Carrasco, C. S. V. Frydrych-Houge and W. B. Motherwell, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1986, 1803 DOI: 10.1039/C39860001803
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