Enantioselective synthesis of the lomaiviticin aglycon full carbon skeleton reveals remarkable remote substituent effects during the dimerization event

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 44, 2010, Pages 13058-13062

  Lee, Hong Geun ^a   Ahn, Jae Young ^a   Lee, Amy S ^a   Shair, Matthew D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

annulation; antitumor agents; natural products; remote steric effect; total synthesis

Indexed keywords

ANNULATION; ANTI-TUMOR AGENTS; NATURAL PRODUCTS; STERIC EFFECT; TOTAL SYNTHESIS;

STEREOSELECTIVITY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIBIOTIC; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE; LOMAIVITICIN A; LOMAIVITICIN B;

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

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FLUORENES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 78649234788     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201002157     Document Type: Article

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