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Whereas the lithiated carbanion derived from the diethyl (N-allyl, N-p
henyl)-amino methylphosphonate 1 failed to undergo the [2,3]-Wittig sh
ift, ammonium salts resulting from the quaternization of diisopropyl (
N,N-diethyl)-aminomethylphosphonate 8 with allylic bromides, were conv
eniently rearranged into the alpha-(N,N-diethylamino)-alkenylphosphona
tes 11, in the presence of t-BuOK, in DMF, at -40 degrees C.