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The adducts between ketones and the anion derived from [(methoxymethyl)sulfonyl]benzene undergo efficient, regioselective rearrangement to give α-methoxyketones when treated with ZrCl4 and HfCl4; this new procedure allows the sulfone-mediated homologation methodology to be applied to monocyclic and acyclic ketones.
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Montana et al. (1994) studied this question.
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