Conclusions
Initiation of the reaction for the cyclization of isoprenoids by acids proceeds as a nonstereospecific process at the 2,3 bond, while when this reaction is initiated by mercury salts it proceeds as a stereospecific reaction.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1151–1153, May, 1973.
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Mustafaeva, M.T., Smit, V.A., Semenovskii, A.V. et al. Stereochemistry of protonation and mercuration of trisubstituted double bond during cyclization of isoprenoids. Russ Chem Bull 22, 1111–1113 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00854264
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