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Concise synthesis of the multiply oxygenated ABC-ring system of the dihydro-β-agarofurans

Tomochika Ishiyama1, Daisuke Urabe, Hiroki Fujisawa

  • 1Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.

Organic Letters
|August 14, 2013
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