Investigations of the type ii intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction directed toward natural product synthesis

This thesis describes synthetic studies directed towards the total synthesis of the nakafuran and florlide marine natural products. Chapter One provides an overview of the importance of natural products to current medicinal chemistry and describes how the "supply issue" associated with the...

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Main Author: Muscroft-Taylor, Andrew Clive
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Chemistry 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1290