A practical, enantioselective synthetic route to a key precursor to the tetracycline antibiotics

Organic Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 3523-3525

  Brubaker, Jason D ^a   Myers, Andrew G ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PRODRUG; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PRODRUGS; STEREOISOMERISM; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 34548542101     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol071377d     Document Type: Article

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