Our plan, guided by periodic examination of CPK molecular models, 17 originally called for the construction of a cis or trans azethoxyl nitroxide18 patterned after schematic structure 1 (R= a single bond). Alcohol 10 and acid 11 were prepared from tetraethylene glycol (9)(see Experimental Section), as potential precursors for 13 via a Michael reaction on the corresponding unsaturated ketones 12, followed by a reductive cyclization. When neither ...