A vanadium-catalyzed coupling of allenylic alcohols with electrophilic halide sources to form α-halo-α',β'-unsaturated ketones is described. The process proceeds through a metal enolate formed from the 1,3-transposition of an allenol that is initiated by a cheap and earth-abundant vanadium oxo catalyst. Fluorine, chlorine, and bromine electrophiles can be utilized, and the resulting products can give rise to the introduction of nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and iodine nucleophiles α to the ketone through substitution chemistry.
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