Reaction of alkylcopper(I)phosphine complexes with electron-deficient olefins affected preferentially the products based on oligomerization, e.g. the product obtained by sequential conjugated addition, trimerization and cyclization from methyl methacrylate and the dimerization product from butyl acrylate.
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