Download full text in PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... Alkynyl halides are reduced by chromium(II) chloride in DMF to give unisolable alkynylchromium compounds which add selectively to an aldehyde moiety without affecting the coexisting ketone group of the substrate. ... Anhydrous chromium(II) chloride was purchased from Aldrich ...