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Reppe chemistry
Walter Reppe discovered that in the presence of metal catalysts, acetylene can react to give a wide range of industrially significant chemicals.

 With alcohols, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen chloride, or carboxylic acids to give vinyl compounds: 
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 With aldehydes to give ethynyl diols.
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1,4-Butynediol is produced industrially in this way from formaldehyde and acetylene.

 With carbon monoxide to give acrylic acid, or acrylic esters, which can be used to produce acrylic glass.
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 Cyclicization to give benzene and cyclooctatetraene:
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References

External links
 Acetylene at Chemistry Comes Alive!

 Movie explaining acetylene formation from calcium carbide and the explosive limits forming fire hazards

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