Whiting Reaction

P. Nayler, M. C. Whiting, J. Chem. Soc. 1954, 4006.

Alkynediols are reduced by lithium aluminum hydride in ether or tertiary amines to dienes:

R. A. Raphael, Acetylene Compounds in Organic Synthesis (New York, 1955) p 114; O. Isler, et al., Helv. Chim. Acta 39, 454 (1956); L. F. Fieser, M. Fieser, Reagents for Organic Synthesis (New York, 1967) p 385.