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Treatment of 1-acetoxy-1H-2-benzopyran-4-one with either base or heat generates the parent 2-benzopyrylium-4-oxide system which gives intermolecular cycloadducts with a variety of dipolarophiles, including olefins.
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Sammes et al. (1984) studied this question.
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