“…Alternatively, a Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons (HWE) reaction between a phosphate carbanion and a carbonyl compound can be used to access a variety of substituted allenes, 133,134 allenyl esters, 135 amides, 136,137 and sulfones. 137 Tomioka and co-workers, 138 for example, have designed a one-pot procedure for the synthesis of functionalized allenes using two sequential HWE olefination reactions (Scheme 48). The first HWE reaction occurs be- Correspondingly, Fuji and co-workers 139 developed a one-pot procedure for the synthesis of allenyl esters by a HWE reaction between 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenyl (BHT) esters and phosphonate carbanions (Scheme 49).…”