Content:
Foreword
Page v
Atta-ur-Rahman
Preface
Page vii
A.I. Scott
Contributors
Pages xi-xiv
Total synthesis of the microbial antitumor antibiotics actinobolin and bactobolin Original Research Article
Pages 3-25
Steven M. Weinreb
Total synthesis of crystalline (Β±)-fredericamycin A Original Research Article
Pages 27-74
Derrick L.J. Clive, Yong Tao, Ahmad Khodabocus, Yong-Jin Wu, A. GaΓ«tan Angoh, Sharon M. Bennett, Christopher N. Boddy, Luc Bordeleau, Michel Cantin, David R. Cheshire, Dorit Kellner, Galit Kleiner, Donald S. Middleton, Christopher J. Nichols, Scott R. Richardson, Lu Set, Peter G. Vernon
Stereoselective synthesis and transformation of siastatin B, A novel glycosidase inhibitor, directed toward new drugs for viral infection and tumor metastasis Original Research Article
Pages 75-121
Yoshio Nishimura
The use of cyclic monoterpenoids as enantiopure starting materials in natural product synthesis Original Research Article
Pages 123-288
Thomas Money, Michael K.C. Wong
Progress in the synthesis of iridoids and related natural products Original Research Article
Pages 289-320
Sachihiko Isoe
Stereoselective synthesis of brassinosteroids Original Research Article
Pages 321-364
Thomas G. Back
Organopalladium approaches to prostaglandins Original Research Article
Pages 365-393
R.C. Larock
Transition metal organometallic methods for the synthesis of amino acids Original Research Article
Pages 395-413
G. Richard Stephenson
Palladium-mediated synthesis of alkaloids Original Research Article
Pages 415-452
Jan-E. BΓ€ckvall, David Tanner
Recent progress in the synthesis of piperidine and indolizidine alkaloids Original Research Article
Pages 453-502
S.R. Angle, J.G. Breitenbucher
Recent developments on the synthesis of aporphine alkaloids Original Research Article
Pages 503-546
Osamu Hoshino
Stereo- and enantiospecific reactions of 1,4-benzoquinones with styrenyl systems: Stereoselective syntheses of neolignans, pterocarpans and several naturally occurring 2-aryl-2,3-dihydrobenzofuran systems Original Research Article
Pages 547-569
Thomas A. Engler
Biogenesis-like transformation of 4-substituted phenols by photooxygenation Original Research Article
Pages 571-637
K. Endo
Furan in the synthesis of natural products Original Research Article
Pages 639-685
Jerzy Raczko, Janusz Jurczak
Enantiomerically pure Ξ³-butyrolactones in natural products synthesis Original Research Article
Pages 687-725
Stacie S. Canan Koch, A. Richard Chamberlin
Fluoro-Ξ²-lactams: Synthesis and application in asymmetric synthesis Original Research Article
Pages 727-744
John T. Welch, Robert Kawecki
Subject index
Pages 745-757