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A practical six-step synthesis of (S)-camptothecin
1Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8204, USA. daniel_comins@ncsu.edu
Organic Letters
|January 11, 2002
Abstract:
An asymmetric synthesis of (S)-camptothecin (1) has been accomplished in six steps starting from two commercially available heterocycles. [reaction: see text]