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The adventures of tin-tin: The activation of cyclooctatetraene by a distannyne results in complete SnSn bond cleavage and formation of a π-bound planar aromatic C8H8 ring in an inverse sandwich complex (see scheme; Ar′=C6H3-2,6-(C6H3-2,6-iPr2)2)
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