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Balaji Santhanam1, Geert-Jan Boons
1Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, The University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA.
Abstract:
[structure: see text] A general synthetic strategy for long-chain omega-1 hydroxy fatty acids has been developed, which employs as a key reaction step a cross metathesis between omega-unsaturated ester and 3-butene-2-ol. The resulting lipids were used for the preparation of lipid A derivatives of Rhizobium sin-1, which have the ability to inhibit the E. coli LPS-dependent synthesis of tumor necrosis factor by human monocytes.
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