Efficient and convergent stereocontrolle
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IstvΓ‘n E. MarkΓ³; Jean-Christophe Vanherck; Ali Ates; Bernard Tinant; Jean-Paul D
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Article
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2003
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Elsevier Science
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French
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Upon treatment with tBuOK/H 2 O, a variety of v-halo-b-keto-ketals undergo smooth cyclisation, affording in excellent yields mono-protected [n,m] spiro bicyclic diketones. This transformation is highly stereoselective producing, in all cases, the diastereoisomerically pure spiro derivatives.