The pinacol coupling reaction has enjoyed a recent resurgence as a synthetic method due to the advent of a variety of low-valent metal reagents capable of affecting this transformation under mild reaction conditions and with excellent yields and stereoselectivities. 1 However, whilst the use of intramolecular pinacol couplings for the generation of carbocycles is well documented, 2 there are relatively few examples of the same reaction being applied to ...