Reduction of 1, 2-dibromocyclohexene with 1% sodium amalgam in the presence of Ni (η2- C2H4) L2 gives cyclohexyne nickel (0) complexes Ni (η2-C6H8) L2 [L2= 2PPh3 (1), dcpe (2), 2PEt3 (3), dcpe=(C6H11) 2PCH2CH2P (C6H11) 2]. Complex 2 is shown by X-ray crystallography to be nearly planar. It reacts with CO2 to give the nickelacycle Ni {C6H8C (O) O}(dcpe)(9), the Ni-C σ-bond of which undergoes insertion with MeO2CC2CO2Me to ...
[Isaeva, L. S.; Peganova, T. A.; Petrovskii, P. V.; Kayumov, F. F.; Yusupova, F. G.; Yur'ev, V. P. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 1983 , vol. 248, # 3 p. 375 - 381]