White monks

The mother order of the Cistercians was the Benedictines, created by St Benedict at Monte Cassino in 529. People commonly called them black monks because of their black tunic and scapular. In stark contrast, the Cistercians adopted a white or grey tunic. It was an emblem of the purity fitting of their Jemsalem discoveries and they became the white monks. 

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Lee, T.H., Fleet, G.H., Monk, P.R., Wibowo, D., Davis, C.R., Costello, P.J. and Henick-Kling, T. (1985) Options for the management of malolactic fermentation in red and white table wines. In Proc. Int. Symp. On Cool Climate Viticulture and Oenology, Eugene, Oregon, 25-28 June, 1984 (eds Heatherbell, D.A., Lombard, P.B., Bodyfelt, F.W. and Price, S.F.). Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, pp. 496-515. 

The same conversion of 99 to 100 was also utilized by Fleet et al. [45] for the enantiospecific synthesis of (S)-quinuclidinol (103, Scheme 21). White et al. [46] employed the thermal rearrangement of the related vinyl ether 104 to aldehyde 105 for the total synthesis of monk acid C (106). 

B. M. Monks and A. Whiting, Direct amide formation avoiding poor atom economy reagents. Sustainable Catalysis published by Wilq and Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2013, pp. 89-110. 

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