
%0 Journal Article
%A Hanton, LR 
%A Lorimer, SD 
%A Weavers, RT 
%T The Chemistry of Laurenene. VI. An Investigation of the Widely Differing Reactivity of a Pair of Epimeric Keto Esters
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1987/09/01
%V 40
%N 9
%P 1591-1602
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9871591
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9871591 
%X X-ray crystallography and two-dimensional n.m.r. techniques have been used to establish the conformations of the epimeric keto esters (1) and (3), derived from cleavage of ring A of lauren-1-ene (2). This information has been used to rationalize the disparate reactivity of the keto functions of (1) and (3) in acid-catalysed carbocation rearrangements and with lithium aluminium hydride. The structures of two new rearranged ethers derived from (1) are also discussed. 
