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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Elsevier Science & Technology
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978-0-444-89744-2 (9780444897442)
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Atta-ur-Rahman, Professor Emeritus, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry and Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research), University of Karachi, Pakistan, was the Pakistan Federal Minister for Science and Technology (2000-2002), Federal Minister of Education (2002), and Chairman of the Higher Education Commission with the status of a Federal Minister from 2002-2008. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS) and an UNESCO Science Laureate. He is a leading scientist with more than 1283 publications in several fields of organic chemistry.
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Professor Emeritus, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry and Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research), University of Karachi, Pakistan
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.
