Didier Bouyssi, Marcello Cavicchioli, Sylvie Large, Nuno Monteiro, Geneviève Balme* Laboratoire de chimie organique I, associé au CNRS, Université Claude Bernard, CPE, 43 Bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne, France Fax +33.4.72.43.12.14; E-mail: balme@univ-lyon1.fr Received 28 February 2000 ... Abstract: A variety of functionalized oxaspiroheptanes were easily transformed in good to excellent yields into cyclohexanones by treatment with lithium iodide. Key ...