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Grubbs' 2nd-generation ruthenium carbene catalyst homocouples diazoacetates to maleates and also catalyses head-to-head dimerisation of alkenyl diazoacetates giving dienyl dilactones.
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Hodgson et al. (2005) studied this question.
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