The orthogonal arrangement of cumulated double bonds has attracted a great deal of attention from the scientific community since the first allene was prepared by Burton and von Pechmann in 1887. [1] The selection of substituents having a different electronic nature allows the ambivalent reactivity of allenes towards nucleophilic as well as electrophilic reagents with controlled regio-and stereoselectivity. [2,3] Thus, donor/acceptor-substituted allenes have emerged among the most versatile synthetic building blocks in the development of novel carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions (Scheme 1). In contrast, the reactivity behavior of [n]cumulene derivatives, compounds with three or more consecutive double bonds, has not been fully explored because of the difficulty associated with their preparation other than tetrasubstituted [3]cumulene derivatives. [4] While a limited number of acyl-substituted [3]cumulene derivatives are known to be stable [5] and subsequently utilized in the enyne cycloaddition, [6] palladium-catalyzed arylation, [7] Lewis acid catalyzed Diels-Alder reactions, [8] phosphine- [9] and silvercatalyzed [3+2] cycloaddition reactions, [10] the synthesis as well as synthetic utility of donor-substituted [3]cumulene derivatives have yet to be established. [11] Recently, we reported a facile a-vinyl enolization pathway of (E)-b-chlorovinyl ketones in which transient oxy-substituted [3]cumulene derivatives [i.e., cumulenol(ate)s] were postulated as nucleophilic species, reacting either with a protic source [12] or aldehydes [13] (Scheme 2). Drawn by the possibility of investigating the ambivalent reactivity modes of donor-substituted [3]cumulene derivatives, we envisioned a reaction of in situ generated [3]cumulene derivatives with nucleophiles. Herein, we report an electrophilic reactivity mode of oxy-substituted [3]cumulene derivatives in the syntheses of vinyl allenones and 3-methylenepyrrolidines with excellent stereoselectivities.During the course of our investigation into the nucleophilicity of b-chlorovinyl ketones, we observed the formation of the aldol product 2 a as well as the vinyl allenone 3 a under the influence of lithium salts (Table 1). [13] While 3 a was obtained with a low yield of 15 %, we were particularly encouraged by the fact that 3 a, a trisubstituted alkene, was formed stereoselectively. To optimize the formation of 3 a, we Scheme 1. Known and proposed reactivity patterns of functionalized allenes and [3]cumulenes. Scheme 2. Ambivalent reactivity modes of in situ generated oxy-substituted [3]cumulenes.