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The orthoester Claisen rearrangement is used as a key reaction in the facile conversion of an acetaldehyde moiety stereospecifically into the (E)-4-methylhex-4-enoic acid side-chain of mycophenolic acid.
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Patterson et al. (1991) studied this question.
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