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Hydrozirconation of alkenes and alkynes, followed by insertion of 1-halo-1-lithio-1-alkenes, generated in situ by lithium tetramethylpiperidide deprotonation of vinyl halides, affords vinylzirconocene species which may be further elaborated. The method provides easy access to many structures including terminal (3E)- and (3Z)-1,3-dienes and (3E,5E)- and (3Z,5E)-1,3,5-trienes, and internal (E,Z)-dienes, (E,Z,E)-trienes, and (1E,3Z)-1,3-dien-5-ynes. Insertion of 2-monosubstituted 1-halo-1-lithio-1-alkenes occurs with clean inversion of configuration of the sp2-carbenoid carbon. Carbenoids derived by deprotonation of 2,2-disubstituted 1-halo-1-alkenes gave poor stereocontrol probably due to isomerization before insertion into the organozirconium species. Insertion of vinyl carbenoids into alkynylzirconocenes affords terminal (3E)- or (3Z)-1,3-dien-5-ynes, internal (1E,3Z)-1,3-dien-5-ynes, and (Z)-3-en-1,5-diynes.

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Treatment of acetylenic or olefinic carbonates and esters with a low-valent titanium reagent diisopropoxy(η2-propene)titanium (1), readily generated by the reaction of Ti(O-i-Pr)4 or ClTi(O-i-Pr)3 with 2i-PrMgX, resulted in an intramolecular nucleophilic acyl substitution (INAS) reaction to afford organotitanium compounds having a carbonyl functional group, in good to excellent yields. Thus, the treatment of alkyl alkynyl carbonates 2 or alkyl alkenyl carbonates 4 with 1 gave organotitanium compounds having a lactone and/or ester group. Similarly, alkyl alkynoates 10 or alkynyl esters 14 of carboxylic acids reacted with 1 to give organotitanium compounds having a cyclic or acyclic ketone group, respectively. Thus, the reaction provides, after hydrolysis, five- or six-membered α-alkylidene lactones and/or α,β-unsaturated esters from 2, γ-butyrolactone derivatives from 4, five- or six-membered α-alkylidene cyclic ketones from 10, and acyclic α,β-unsaturated ketones 15 from 14. In all cases, the yields are excellent and the generation of the organotitanium compounds was confirmed by deuterolysis. The organotitaniums 6 and 11c reacted smoothly with iodine to afford 2-(iodomethyl)-4-butanolide (9) and α-[iodo(trimethylsilyl)methylidene]cyclopentanone, respectively. The organotitanium compounds obtained here also reacted with aldehydes to give the corresponding adducts, thus opening up a new access to substituted α,β-butenolides from 2, to γ-butyrolactones from 4, and to the corresponding tetrasubstituted furan from 10 and 14.