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The reductive dimerization of 6,6-dialkylfulvenes by elemental calcium or strontium smoothly afforded the first ansa-metallocene derivatives of these metals. The bright red 1,4-diazadiene adduct 1 was characterized structurally.
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Rieckhoff et al. (1993) studied this question.
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