Highly stereoselective alkylative and arylative cyclization reactions of allenyl-aldehydes and -ketones with organozinc reagents occur efficiently in the presence of catalytic Ni(COD)2 to afford cis-fused homoallylic cyclopentanols.
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Kang et al. (2002) studied this question.