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The current volume presents a variety of synthetic strategies developed for important classes of natural products such as taxanes, quassinoids, polyketides, macrolides, indolizidine and Aristotelia alkaloids, fungal metabolites, vitamin D analogues and higher sugars.
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Studies directed toward the total synthesis of the taxanes (L.A. Paquette). Synthetic approaches toward antitumor quassinoids (T. Murae, M. Sasaki). Biomimetic syntheses of aromatic natural products via polyketides (M. Yamaguchi). Conformational control in macrolide synthesis (N. Nakajima, O. Yonemitsu). Stereochemical aspects of natural product biosynthesis (K.A. Reynolds, H.G. Floss). Some chiral approaches to syntheses of bioactive indolizidine alkaloids (C. Kibayashi). Aristotelia alkaloids: synthetic and biomimetic studies (H.-J. Borschberg). Total synthesis of (+) -mevinolin and (+) -compactin (D.L.J. Clive et al.). Synthetic studies on active forms of vitamin D and their analogs (Y. Tachibana, M. Tsuji). Synthesis of natural products via alpha-halo boronic esters (D.S. Matteson). Aspects of modern higher carbon sugar synthesis (G. Casiraghi, G. Rassu). Subject Index.
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