Facile Orthoester Formation in a Model C
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JosΓ©-Luis Giner; Juanβ
A. Faraldos
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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German
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## Abstract A steroidal oxetanyl ester was synthesized in eight steps as a biomimetic model of taxol oxetane. The model compound was surprisingly reactive under acidic conditions, rearranging in the absence of H~2~O to a [2.2.1]βbicyclic orthoester. Both the oxetanyl ester and the orthoester readil