A facile, consecutive, self‐consisting assembly of two molecules of ketones with two molecules of acetylene to afford 7‐methylene‐6,8‐dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octanes, which are unknown congeners of widespread insect pheromones, has been discovered. The reaction is realized in a one‐pot procedure in a MOH/DMSO system (M = K, Cs) at 80 °C for 1 h under acetylene pressure or under atmospheric pressure; the isolated yields of the bicycles reached 86 %. The new reaction conceptually contributes to the synthesis of insect pheromones as well as to the chemistry of ketones and acetylene. (© Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2009)

A wide variety of β,γ-unsaturated ketones of E configuration have been obtained in good to excellent yields via KO(t)Bu/DMSO promoted α-vinylation of aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, and alkyl aromatic (heteroaromatic) ketones with diverse arylacetylenes.

Keywords: Acetylene / Heterocycles / X-ray absorption spectroscopy / UV/Vis spectroscopy / Fluorescence spectroscopy (10), and 2,6-dimethyl-3-(pyrrol-2-yl)-5-[2-(1-vinylpyrrol-2-yl)]pyridine (11) have been synthesized from the oximes of the corresponding diacetylpyridines in a one-pot procedure by treatment with acetylene in MOH/DMSO systems (M = Li, K) at 80-140°C under pressures of 25-30 atm, thus illustrating the applicability and general character of the reaction for synthesis of diverse dipyrrole-pyridine assemblies and their N-vinyl and acetyl derivatives. A stable 4·DMSO

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BODIPYrrole: A general strategy for the design of novel BODIPY fluorophores based on pyrroles with polycondensed aromatic and metallocene substituents has been developed. The strategy involves the acylation of the condensed substituent and treatment of the acylated derivative (as oxime) with acetylene in MOH/DMSO (M = alkali metal) to give pyrroles that were then used for assembly of the BODIPY fluorophores (see scheme).