Thermal elimination/Claisen rearrangement of selenoxides derived from the enantiomerically pure phenylselenomethyl-substituted cyclic acetals 4 and 8 proceeds stereospecifically to provide the homochiral 8- and 7-membered lactones 5 and 9 respectively.
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Fuhry et al. (1993) studied this question.
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