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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 17.
Published in final edited form as: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2014 Mar 17;53(12):3232–3235. doi: 10.1002/anie.201311130

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1

Postulated mechanism for ruthenium(0) catalyzed diol-alkyne hydrohydroxyalkylation as illustrated in the coupling of 1,2-cyclohexane diol 1b and 1-phenyl-1-propyne 2a.