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In the presence of a catalytic amount of titanium(IV) chloride, optically active styrene oxide and its analogs are directly converted into the corresponding acetals such as acetonides or cyclopentylidene acetals keeping up high to complete optical purity on the treatment with ketones.
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Nagata et al. (1994) studied this question.
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