A palladium-isocyanide complex opens the two four-membered rings of benzocyclobutenone and silacyclobutane to merge them into an eight-membered ring skeleton. The present reaction provides a unique example of an intermolecular cross metathesis-type reaction between covalent σ-bonds of low polarity.
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