Keywords: Carbanions / Silyl enol ether / Fluorides / Alkenyl nonaflates / Heck reactionThe nonaflation of lithium enolates or of silyl enol ethers, formally derived from acetaldehyde or crotonaldehyde, with nonafluorobutanesulfonyl fluoride gave ethenyl nonaflate (1b) and (Z)-buta-1,3-dien-1-yl nonaflate (2) in good yields. The required enolates were obtained by aldehyde-free routes by the lithiation of tetrahydrofuran or 2,5-dihydrofuran followed by the cyclofragmentation of the metallated heterocycles. The application of this approach to the synthesis of allenyl nonaflate 3 failed, presumably due to the intrinsic instability of this allene derivative. The nonaflates 1b and 2 were also prepared by the fluoride-catalysed reaction of the