Publications by authors named "Joseph J Mullins"

The relative rates of acid-catalyzed rearrangements of epoxy esters to [3.2.1]bicyclic orthoesters, the subsequent rearrangements of these ortho esters to substituted tetrahydrofurans, and the rates of orthoester hydrolysis at pH 4.

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The biomimetic epoxy ester[bond]orthoester rearrangement has been applied to a new synthesis of 2-methyl-D-erythritol, a branched five-carbon sugar of importance to the deoxyxylulose pathway of isoprenoid biosynthesis. The intermediate orthoacetate is one of the few [2.2.

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