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. ... The title compounds (2E, 11R)-4-oxo-2-dodecen-11-olide, 1 and (2Z, 11R)-4-oxo-2-dodecen -11-olide, 2 were synthesised in optically pure forms from a nitroalkane synthon involving a chiral resolution step using goat liver lipase. ... Enantioselective total synthesis of (1) and (2) ...