Jutta Böhmer and Rainer Schobert
β-Oxo-dienetricarbonyliron complexes 4 and γ-oxo-alkenecarbene complexes 5 undergo olefinations with a wide range of phosphonates and phosphoranes with high E- or Z-selectivity and give the free oligo-en(yn)es or carbamates, respectively, upon oxidative demetalation.