title: Chemo- and Regioselective Dimerization of Terminal Alkynes Promoted by Methylaluminoxane.
abstract: Methylalumoxane (MAO) was found to be an active catalytic precursor for the chemo- and regioselective dimerization of a wide range of aryl- and alkyl-substituted terminal alkynes yielding the corresponding geminal dimers A. For an olefin-functionalized terminal alkyne (RC&tbd1;CH, R = MeC=CH(2)), the geminal dimer undergoes an intermolecular [4 + 2] cycloaddition forming compound B.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Institute of Catalysis Science and Technology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000 Israel.
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Dash
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Eisen