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The acid-catalysed rearrangement of 2,5-dialkyl-2,5-dioxy-2,5-dihydrofurans (9) and (15) are key steps common to two alternative approaches to the dispiroacetal ring system of salinomycin and related polyether antibiotics.
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Kocieński et al. (1989) studied this question.
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