Lactone Formation by Rhodium-Catalyzed C-C Bond Cleavage of Cyclobutanone We thank Dr. T. Tanaka (Kyoto University) for GC analysis of H(2), and Dr. M. Miura (Osaka University) for helpful discussions. Support from Monbusho (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, No. 283: Innovative Synthetic Reactions) is gratefully acknowledged.
Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry Kyoto University Yoshida, Kyoto 606-8501 (Japan).
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