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. ... Highly enantiomerically pure (-)-talaromycins A and B [ (3 ,4 ,6 ,9 )- and (3 ,4 ,6 ,9 )-9-ethyl-4-hydroxy -3-hydroxymethyl-1,7-dioxaspiro [5.5]undecane] were synthesized starting from chiral building blocks of microbial origin. ... Nippon Kagaku Kaishi (J. Chem. Soc. Jpn.) (1983), p. 1315 ...