“…However, in many cases, separations can be avoided as, for example, in the preparation of the highly crystalline tribenzoylenolone (l) from the hexenitOL (23). At low temperature, chlorination of (23) affords a mixture of ~-D-manno dichloride (24) and the benzoxonium salt (25), which only at room temperature is converted-rnto the ß-D-gluao dichloride~26). Hence, when a low temperature chlorination of (23) is followed by hydrolysis with water, a mixture of 24 and the hexosulose-27 is obtained, which on brief treatment with boiling--benzene and moist sodium hydrogen carbonate yields enolone 1, readily separable from 24 by fractional crystallisation.…”