Lovelace, Thomas Claiborne2014-03-142014-03-141990-03-02etd-04142009-040728http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42092The synthesis of several dihydrofurans of type 179 was accomplished by the flash vacuum pyrolysis of vinyloxiranes of type 178 obtained from the addition of the dienolate of ethyl-2-bromocrotonate (177) to various aldehydes (176). Thus, dihydrofurans were prepared from aldehydes in an overall intermolecular [2+3] dihydrofuran annulation.v, 116 leavesBTDapplication/pdfenIn CopyrightLD5655.V855 1990.L683FuransIpomeamarone -- SynthesisThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04142009-040728/