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 short synthetic route to C 16 -juvenile hormone is described which depends on new oxirane ring opening methodology and which also involves the joining of intermediate 8 and 12 in a one flask operation to construct the sesquiterpene structure. ... For a similar chiral Lewis acid ...