Johnson, Marc

We would like to thank the following people for developing the preparations described in this paper Brian Budzik, Mike G. Fickes, Marc J. A. Johnson, Catalina E. Laplaza, Aaron L. Odom, Jonas C. Peters, Sheree L. Stokes, and Ryan D. Sutherland. For funding C.C.C. thanks the National Science Foundation (CAREER Award CHE-9501992), DuPont (Young Professor Award), the Packard Foundation (Packard Foundation Fellowship), Union Carbide (Innovation Recognition Award), and 3M (Innovation Fund Award). 

We express our sincere thanks to Dr. Louise G. Edwards who carried out many of the seminal experiments described in this review. Other important contributions were made by Cathleen M. Cradden, Julia C. Lautens, A. Catherine Smith, Christian Sood, and Marc Johnson. 

Some of the data taken from ref. 21(a), and some data from unpublished results of Marc Johnson and William Tam. 

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Two useful new methods for alkyne construction have been put forward. Professor Yadav has developed (Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 5335) an elegant homologation of lactones such as 31 to alkynes, and Marc A. J. Johnson of the University of Micliigan lias reduced to practice (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 3800) the long-sought metathetical coupling of two nitriles such as 34 to form the alkyne 35. 

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