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A New General Synthesis of Aliphatic and Terminal Alkynes: Flash Vacuum Pyrolysis of β-Oxoalkylidenetriphenylphosphoranes
Aitken, R. Alan,Atherton, J. Ian
, p. 1140 - 1141 (1985)
By using flash vacuum conditions the thermal elimination of Ph3PO from β-oxoalkylidenetriphenylphosphoranes, previously confined to cases with an α-electron withdrawing group, has been extended to provide a general, high yielding synthesis of aliphatic and terminal alkynes.