"February 2005"Bibliography: leaves 206-220.ix, 222 leaves : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm."The main focus of the work discussed in this thesis was to explore the utility of 1,2-dioxines for the synthesis of selected bioactive, cyclopropyl-containing, natural products and to investigate their potential for the construction of novel oxygen hetereocycles, namely tetrahydropyrans and tetrhydrofurans." --p. iii.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Faculty of Sciences, School of Chemistry and Physics, Discipline of Chemistry, 200
