Synthesis of curacin A, an antimitotic cyclopropane-thiazoline from the marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 40, 1996, Pages 7167-7170

  Lai, Jing Yu ^a   Yu, Jurong ^a   Mekonnen, Belew ^a   Falck, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CURACIN A; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

LYNGBYA MAJUSCULA;

EID: 0030607149     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-4039(96)01616-4     Document Type: Article

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