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. ... To explore the use of methoxymethyl groups to elaborate simple benzenoid precursors to more complex polyketide-derived natural products, the reaction of phenolmetoxymethyl ether -anion was investigated with a number of electrophiles. ... CA Townsend, SG Davis, SB ...