Foregoing their past as structural oddities and molecules of only fundamental interest, allenes have proven themselves as valuable synthetic building blocks and reaction intermediates.[1] In part, the interest in these molecules stems from their axial chirality,[2] which has tremendous potential in the realm of stereoselective synthesis (Figure 1).[1, 3] We have recently begun a program aimed at utilizing the unique structural features of axially ...
[Hodgson, David M.; Bailey, James M.; Villalonga-Barber, Carolina; Drew, Michael G. B.; Harrison, Timothy Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1, 2000 , # 20 p. 3432 - 3443]