Allylation of alkyl substrates represents a very important reaction type in modern synthetic organic chemistry. Numerous elegant approaches to allylated alkanes have been developed, primarily based on the transition-metal-catalyzed addition of alkyl nucleophiles to allylic electrophiles.[1–3] This includes the recent Ni-catalyzed asymmetric Negishi coupling of primary alkylzinc reagents with allylic chlorides developed by Fu and co- ...