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 simple, efficient, anti-stereoselective, highly regioselective method is described for the synthesis of γ-hydroxy ketones by the direct opening of 1,2-epoxides with lithium enolates derived from simple ketones in anhydrous THF, in the presence of LiClO 4 . ... A simple, efficient, anti- ...