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Thanos Andreou1, Anna M Costa, Laia Esteban
1Departament de Química Orgànica, Facultat de Química, Av. Diagonal 647, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Abstract:
[reaction: see text] The key fragment (2a or 2b) in a total synthesis of the cytotoxic macrolide (-)-amphidinolide K (1) has been achieved from synthons C9-C14 (3) and C15-C22 (4), which have both been prepared from glutamic acid in good overall yields.
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