Selective mono or double carbonylations could be achieved by using CO(2)-expanded liquids in [2 + 2 + 1] carbonylative reactions of alkenes or acetylenes with allyl bromides catalyzed by Ni(i).

The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of the electron deficient boron azide, (C6F5)2BN3 (1) with the electron-poor acetylenes RO2CC≡CCO2R (R = Me, Et) afforded the new mono- and bis-1,2,3-triazole derivatives and .

Acetylenic carbanions add to nitroarenes (dinitrobenzenes, nitropyridines, etc.) to form σH-adducts that are subsequently oxidized by DDQ according to the oxidative nucleophilic substitution of hydrogen (ONSH) pathway to give nitroaryl acetylenes.

A simple and efficient catalytic arylmagnesiation of diarylacetylenes and aryl(alkyl)acetylenes is accomplished by NiCl2·6H2O at r.t. in the absence of stabilising ligands. The corresponding tetra-substituted alkenes can be obtained in good yields by subsequent treatment with different electrophiles.

Four new acetylenes (1-4) and one new unsaturated ω-hydroxy fatty acid (5), together with 5 known analogues, were isolated from an aqueous extract of Codonopsis pilosula roots. Their structures were determined by spectroscopic and chemical methods. The new acetylenes are categorized as an unusual cyclotetradecatrienynone (1), tetradecenynetriol (2), and rare octenynoic acids (3 and 4), respecti...

The insertion of phenyl acetylenes at the reactive positions indeno[1,2- b ]fluorene leads to tune its optoelectronic and magnetic properties. Furthermore, single-molecule conductance has been investigated for first time.

In the presence of TMSOTf, a wide variety of terminal acetylenes add rapidly and efficiently to aldehydes via a catalytically generated zinc acetylide. In the absence of TMSOTf, no reaction is observed under otherwise identical conditions.

Palladium-catalyzed tandem reactions of 2-alkenylphenyl-acetylenes with CuCl2 or CuBr2 afforded 3-chloro- or 3-bromo-1-methyleneindenes in good yields; these compounds could be further elaborated via palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions.