Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of caprolactam-modified bengamide analogues
Gang Liu1, Yi-Ming Ma, Wan-Yi Tai
1Chinese National Center for Drug Screening, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, 189 Guo Shou Jing Road, Shanghai 201203, China.
Chemmedchem
|November 13, 2007
Abstract
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