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SUBMITTER: Liu K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3235949 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20110906 38
The complexity and low tractability of antibiotic macrolides pose serious challenges to addressing the problem of resistance through semi- or total synthesis. Here we describe a new strategy involving the preparation of a complex yet tractable macrocycle and the transformation of this macrocycle into a range of erythronolide congeners. These compounds represent valuable sectors of erythromycinoid structure space and constitute intermediates with the potential to provide further purchase in this ...[more]