En Route to a Plant Scale Synthesis of the Promising Antitumor Agent 12,13-Desoxyepothilone B

Organic Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1633-1636

  Chappell, Mark D ^a   Stachel, Shawn J ^a   Lee, Chul Bom ^a   Danishefsky, Samuel J ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DESOXYEPOTHILONE B; EPOTHILONE B; EPOTHILONE DERIVATIVE; EPOXIDE; LACTONE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECONOMICS; SYNTHESIS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; EPOTHILONES; EPOXY COMPOUNDS; LACTONES; THIAZOLES;

EID: 0034201169     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0059302     Document Type: Article

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