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Not the expected spirocyclic triketone but the diacyl orthoester (2) is formed on oxidative degradation of the amino acid function in (1) with Pb(OAc)4. The unusual stability of the orthoester is possibly due to the spatially overcrowded structure, evidenced by X-ray structure analysis.
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Siegfried Mohr (1981) studied this question.
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