Exploring Chemical Diversity of Epoxyquinoid Natural Products: Synthesis and Biological Activity of (-)-Jesterone and Related Molecules

Organic Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1649-1652

  Hu, Yongbo ^a   Li, Chaomin ^a   Kulkarni, Bheemashankar A ^a   Strobel, Gary ^b   Lobkovsky, Emil ^c   Torczynski, Richard M ^d   Porco Jr , John A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^d Cytoclonal Pharmaceutics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS; EPOXIDE; JESTERONE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ALKENES; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; EPOXY COMPOUNDS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0035979070     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0159367     Document Type: Article

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