Abstract A variety of 1, 1, 4, 4-tetraal kynylbutatrienes and 1, 4-dialkynylbutatrienes was synthezized by dimerization of the corresponding gem-dibromoolefins. Both 1 H and 13 C NMR spectroscopy indicated that the di-and tetraalkynylated butatrienes are formed as a mixture of cis and trans isomers. Variable temperature NMR studies evidenced a facile cis– trans isomerization, thus preventing the separation of these isomers by gravity or high- ...
[Akiyama, Shuzo; Nakatsuji, Shin'ichi; Yoshida, Keiko; Nakashima, Kenichiro; Hagiwara, Toshimitsu; et al. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1983 , vol. 56, # 1 p. 361 - 362]