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Alkylidenation of ketones can be performed by the reaction with geminal dibromoalkane-SmI2-Sm in the presence of catalytic amount of CrCl3 at room temperature yielding the alkylidenated products in good to excellent yields.
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Matsubara et al. (1995) studied this question.
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