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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 22.
Published in final edited form as: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2014 Mar 3;53(10):2556–2591. doi: 10.1002/anie.201302572

Scheme 96.

Scheme 96

Rhodium-catalyzed isomerization of metallonitrenes to metallocarbenes; a reaction quartet to efficiently convert simple alkynes to complex bicyclic structures. [Rh2(esp)2]=Rh2(a,a,a’,a'-tetramethyl-1,3-benzenedipropionate) [Blakey, 2008, Ref. [160]]