Abstract: [1-Phenyl-2-[(E)-3-phenylprop-2-en-1-oyl-κO]ethenyl-κC 1]tetracarbonylmanganese (1a) reacts with PhCCH in CCl4 at room temperature to form [2,4-diphenyl-6-(2-phenylethenyl)pyranyl-η5]tricarbonylmanganese (2a), whose X-ray crystal structure is reported to complement that of its isomer [6-oxo-2,4,7-triphenylcyclohepta-1,4-dienyl-1,2,3,4,5-η]tricarbonylmanganese (3a), previously obtained from the reaction under reflux; but for 1a and PhCCPh the pyranyl complex cannot be isolated before rearrangement to the 3a analogue occurs. More forcing reaction conditions for 1a with Me3SiCCH and for [1-(2-trifluoromethylphenyl)-2-[(E)-3-(2-trifluoromethylphenyl)prop-2-en-1-oyl-κO]ethenyl-κC 1]tetracarbonylmanganese (1b) with Me3SiCCH and PhCCH give new analogues of 3a where previously only 2a analogues had been isolated. The reaction in CCl4 under reflux of PhCCH and the β-deuterio analogue of 1a, [1-phenyl-2-[(E)-3-phenylprop-2-en-1-oyl-3d-κO]ethenyl-κC 1]tetracarbonylmanganese, gave deuteriated 3a with exo-D at the α-carbon, C7. This is inconsistent with the Mn-mediated Ph migration mechanism originally proposed to accommodate the endo position of Ph in 3a, and instead it implicates a cyclopropyl carbonyl-addition intermediate or a cyclopropyl acyl-substitution transition state in the key rearrangement step for 2a → 3a. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]