Ethyl 2- 4-Phenylbuta-l,3-diynyl benzoate

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The residue was filtered through a short plug of silica gel (hexanes as eluent), concentrated, distilled under reduced pressure to give the desired product (70% yield according to GLC). 

The senior author deeply thanks all of his coworkers whose names appear in his publications cited herein. All of the authors thank Ms. Donna Bertram and Nicholas L. Tmex for their assistance in the preparation of this chapter. Our research works discussed above have been mainly supported by NSF, NIH, ACS-PRF, Purdue University, Syracuse University, Hokkaido University, Okayama University, and a 

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