Saino Naoko, Amemiya Fumihiro, Tanabe Emi, Kase Kouki, Okamoto Sentaro
Department of Applied Chemistry, Kanagawa University, 3-27-1 Rokkakubashi, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama 221-8686, Japan.
Org Lett. 2006 Mar 30;8(7):1439-42. doi: 10.1021/ol0602295.
[reaction: see text] A 2-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)iminomethylpyridine (1a)/CoCl(2).6H(2)O/Zn reagent has been developed as an effective instant catalyst for the intra- and intermolecular cyclotrimerization of alkynes to substituted benzenes, making the method extremely practical since the reagent, 1a/CoCl(2).6H(2)O/Zn, is inexpensive and easy to handle and the reaction is less sensitive to moisture and is reasonably general.