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. ... Peracid oxidation and HF-catalyzed treatment of furfuryl alcohol derivatives affords lactone products arising from a highly stereoselective rearrangement process. The lactones serve as precursors of highly functionalized anti-1,3-diol derivatives. ... All compounds afforded IR, 1 H and ...