• Reductive elimination with Zn powder gives allene free from methylacetylene: Org. Synth. Coll., 5, 22 (1973).
• Electron-acceptor, with concomitant reduction to allene, in a high-yield coupling of aryl Grignard reagents to symmetrical biaryls: Tetrahedron Lett., 29, 1293 (1988):