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 synthetic pathway to the volatile lactones has been developed using as a key step sequential addition / alkylation to anions generated from 2, 2-dimethyl-5-methylene-1, 3-dioxane. ... D. Seebach, KH Geiss, in D. Seyferth, ed. “New Applications of Organometallic Reagents in ...