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The chiral mono-thiol diester, 1 or 2, is converted to the corresponding enantiomeric cyclised products,(–)-7 and (+)-7 or (–)-9, and (+)-9, depending on whether LDA or AlCl3–Et3N is used.
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Sano et al. (1996) studied this question.
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