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Ring closing metathesis and tandem RCM-isomerization have been applied to the synthesis of six- to eight-membered oxacycles, starting from a common precursor. The products of the tandem RCM-isomerization sequence are glycals of 3-deoxyheptoses of varying ring size.
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Schmidt et al. (2007) studied this question.
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