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Reductive McMurry-type dicarbonyl coupling of certain aryl and α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds to give alkenes can be accomplished using chlorotrimethylsilane and zinc by a novel mechanism which does not involve pinacolic coupling and diol deoxygenation.
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Banerjee et al. (1986) studied this question.
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