Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
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ISBN: 9781118875766
Author: T. W. Graham Solomons, Craig B. Fryhle, Scott A. Snyder
Publisher: WILEY
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Chapter 21, Problem 26P

In 1985, T. Katz (Columbia University) discovered that alkynes could participate in metathesis reactions via similar mechanistic processes as alkenes. Below is a reaction involving both an alkyne and an alkene. Draw a mechanism to account for the formation of the indicated diene product.

Chapter 21, Problem 26P, 21.26	In 1985, T. Katz (Columbia University) discovered that alkynes could participate in metathesis

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