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SUBMITTER: Crimmins MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2546581 | biostudies-literature | 2006 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Crimmins Michael T MT Zhang Yan Y Diaz Frank A FA
Organic letters 20060501 11
[reaction: see text] An enantioselective total synthesis of (-)-mucocin has been completed. A combination of asymmetric glycolate aldol additions and ring closing metathesis reactions were exploited to construct the C18-C34 and C7-C17 fragments. A selective cross-metathesis reaction was employed as the key step to couple two complex fragments. ...[more]