Sin Ting Li, Tobias Schnabel, Sergej Lysenko, Kai Brandhorst and Matthias Tamm
Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 7189-7191
DOI:
10.1039/C3CC43108H,
Communication
The tungsten benzylidyne complex [PhCW{OSi(OtBu)3}3] (1) efficiently catalyses the metathetic conversion between symmetrical and unsymmetrical 1,3-diynes, which provides the opportunity to prepare the latter species directly from terminal