Symmetry-driven total synthesis of merrilactone A and resolvin E2

Strategies and Tactics in Organic Synthesis

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages 149-175

  Inoue, Masayuki ^a   Urabe, Daisuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 84881162673     PISSN: 18746004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-099362-1.00005-9     Document Type: Chapter

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