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Chiral iridium complex catalyzed a formal [4+2] cycloaddition of biphenylene with disubstituted alkynes, which was initiated by carbon-carbon bond cleavage. Axially chiral 9,10-disubstituted phenanthrenes were enantiomerically obtained.
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Shibata et al. (2008) studied this question.