On the verge of axial chirality: Atroposelective synthesis of the AB-biaryl fragment of vancomycin

Organic Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 2833-2836

  Bringmann, Gerhard ^a   Menche, Dirk ^a   Mühlbacher, Jörg ^a   Reichert, Matthias ^a   Saito, Nozomi ^b   Pfeiffer, Steven S ^b   Lipshutz, Bruce H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORINE; LACTONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHLORINE; LACTONES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; STEREOISOMERISM; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0038059973     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol026182e     Document Type: Article

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