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Metal hopping: Various alkynylstannanes were synthesized by the direct reaction of Bu3SnOMe with terminal alkynes at room temperature in the presence of a ZnBr2 catalyst. Rather than acting as a Lewis acid, ZnBr2 was transmetalated with Bu3SnOMe to give Zn(OMe)2, which is key to the catalytic reaction.
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Kiyokawa et al. (2011) studied this question.
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