Although strained cycloalkynes have received considerable experimentaJ2 and theoreticaJ3 attention for many years, the smallest isolable rings are seven-membered.4 We report here the synthesis, chemical and structural characterization, and ab initio calculations of the first isolable5 six-membered ring containing a carbon-carbon triple bond.
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Pang et al. (1992) studied this question.