Tetrahedron Letters,Vol.23,No.33,pp 3365-3368,1982 0040-4039/82/333365-04$03.00/O Printed in Great Britain ... Derek HR Barton, Brigitte Charpiot and William B. Motherwell* (Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, CNRS, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France) ... SUMMARY,- Tetraphenylbismuth V reagents react with enolic systems under acidic or basic conditions to give predictably different inter- mediates; these fragment with variable, but anticipated, regio- selectivity.