Download full text in PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... A novel cyclization reaction is described which affords readily manipulable 3(2H)-dihydrofuranone ethylene ketals, useful in the total synthesis of an ascofuranone model, bullatenone, and muscarine analogs. ... US 3,873,529 (to Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.) 25 Mar., 1975.