Strategies to bypass the taxol problem. Enantioselective cascade catalysis, a new approach for the efficient construction of molecular complexity

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Volumn , Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1477-1489

  Walji, Abbas M ^a   MacMillan, David W C ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascade catalysis; Enantioselective catalysis; Natural product synthesis; Organocatalysis; Stop and go synthesis

Indexed keywords

BREVETOXIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; DITERPENE; GINKGOLIDE; PACLITAXEL; PALYTOXIN;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; HUMAN; REVIEW; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 34347335758     PISSN: 09365214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-980382     Document Type: Review

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