Furthermore, the product organomercurial ketones were useful synthons for further transformations. Treatment of 39 with triethylamine at room temperature allowed for facile elimination of the HgCl to form α,β-unsaturated ketone 47 (Scheme 5A). Stirring 39 with I2 transformed the C-Hg bond into a C-I linkage (Scheme 5B). With NaBH4 in the presence of 1 atm of O2, diol 49 formed in good yield (Scheme 5C); we note that this amounts to a two-pot conversion of readily available allylic alcohols into 1,3-diols, a transformation that has little precedent.