“…Nevertheless, extensive work has been directed towards benzannulated spiroketal model systems using novel spirocyclisation methodology, with elegant new developments including alkoxyselenation, 6 alkyne cyclotrimerization, 7 glycoside rearrangement, 8 Michael additions, 9,10 ring-closing metathesis, 11 o-quinone methide hetero-Diels-Alder cycloadditions, [12][13][14] [3 + 2]-dipolar cycloadditions, 15,16 alkyne hydroalkoxylations, 17,18 radical cyclisation, 19 lactone alkylidenation, 20 palladium(II)-catalysed one-pot multi-component cascade reactions, 21 ring expansion of donor-acceptor substituted cyclopropanes, 22 kinetic spirocyclisation of glycal epoxides 23 and an intramolecular Ullman-ether reaction. 24 2 5,5-Spiroketals…”