A versatile and general one-pot method for synthesizing bis-spiroketal motifs.
[reaction: see text] A versatile and general method for the biomimetic construction of [5,5,5]- and [6,5,6]-bis-spiroketals, starting from easily accessible furan nuclei, by means of a powerful one-pot singlet oxygen-mediated cascade sequence is reported.
Georgiou
Thomas
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Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Vasilika Vouton, 71003 Iraklion, Crete, Greece.
Tofi
Maria
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Montagnon
Tamsyn
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Vassilikogiannakis
Georgios
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