Titanium- and Samarium-Mediated Synthesis of Allenes

The use of organotitanium compounds in the synthesis of allenes involves mainly Wittig-type olefmation reactions of carbonyl compounds [86] with titanium ylides. The formation of allenes according to the scheme Q + Q + Q was described by 

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