<span style="font-size:19.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt">Synthesis of <span style="font-size:18.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.5pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">(1<i>R,</i>2<i>S,</i>3<i>S,</i>4<i>R,</i>5<i>R,</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:19.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt">7</span></i><span style="font-size:19.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt">S)-2,3,4-tris(phenylmethoxy )-6,8-dioxabicyclo(3.2.1 )octan- <span style="font-size:19.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt">7-ol from 1<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">R</i>,2<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">R</i>,3<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">S</i>-tris(phenylmethoxy)-6<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">S</i>-hydroxy- <span style="font-size:19.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">cyclohex-4-ene by ozonolysis</span></span></span></span></span>

207-209<span style="font-size:14.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt; font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="">Ozonolysis of cyclohexene alcohol 1 is reported to yield the bicyclic synthon 2 in good yield. Utility of 2 is shown by transforming it to other useful synthons 3-7.