Recently, we required acid 2 that we envisioned could arise from a palladium catalyzed dealloxycarbonylation 19 of 3, which would be assembled in a stereoselective manner using an AAA reaction and 4, Scheme 1. Given that the use of 4 in the AAA reaction is novel in terms of regiochemistry, we present herein its use in the AAA thus providing further information on the scope of this reaction. ... Formation of 4 involves a straightforward synthesis involving the known diol ...