“…Complex 2, Co 2 (CO) 6 (RCCR), is used as a reagent in the Pauson−Khand reaction, which generates cyclopentenones from an alkyne, an alkene, and CO. 8,9 In complex 3, alkyne moieties are coordinated to the iron center as both bridging and terminal ligands. 10 Each of the late-transition-metal (groups 8−10) examples discussed above (1−3) was synthesized by the direct addition of an alkyne to an electron-rich, low-or zerovalent (i.e., Pt II , Co 0 , Fe 0 ) metal center. Similarly, some of the first examples 11−14 of early-transition-metal (group 4 or 5) alkyne complexes employed a comparable synthetic methodology, as shown in Scheme 2; adding 1 equiv of alkyne to formally Ti II metallocenes affords alkyne complexes such as 4 and 5.…”