El. Muller et al., PHOSPHONIC SYSTEMS .16. REACTION OF METHY L PROPENYLPHOSPHONATE CARBANION WITH KETONES - REVERSAL OF THE NUCLEOPHILE-ELECTROPHILE FUNCTION, Bulletin de la Societe chimique de France, 131(9), 1994, pp. 959-964
Lithiated diethyl prop-2-enylphosphonate (allylic phosphonate anion) a
dds to ketones via the gamma-carbon (kinetic product) or the gamma-car
bon (thermodynamic product) of the allylic system. For enolizable keto
nes, the major reaction under thermodynamic conditions is however not
the formation of a gamma-adduct, but the deprotonation of a ketone by
the allylic phosphonate carbanion, followed by the conjugated addition
of the enolate ion to the vinylic phosphonate formed via the prototro
pic isomerization of the starting allylic ester.