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Treatment of ethers with bases such as alkyl lithium results in alcohols.
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Li, J.J. (2014). [1,2]-Wittig rearrangement. In: Name Reactions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03979-4_289
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