Abstract: | A nickel‐catalyzed reductive coupling of aldehydes with alkynes using 1‐phenylethanol as reducing agent has been developed. The key achievement of this work is that we demonstrate environmentally benign 1‐phenylethanol can serve as a viable alternative reducing agent to Et3B, ZnEt2 and R3SiH for the nickel‐catalyzed reductive coupling reaction of aldehyde and alkynes. |