Climbing the ladder: Reductive cyclization of alkynyl haloboranes lead to the bis-benzocycloborabutylidene rather than the expected ladder diborole, despite the former being much less thermodynamically favored. Photochemical conversion to the ladder diborole was, however, quite facile upon irradiation at 254 nm.
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