Towards aflatoxins: a formal synthesis of aflatoxin B2

…, T Morley, JE Painter, P Patel, P Quayle, DC Ricketts…

Index: Eastham, Stephen A.; Ingham, Steven P.; Hallett, Michael R.; Herbert, John; Modi, Andrea; Morley, Timothy; Painter, James E.; Patel, Prakash; Quayle, Peter; Ricketts, Dean C.; Raftery, James Tetrahedron, 2008 , vol. 64, # 5 p. 936 - 948

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Abstract

A colleague once remarked 1 that the initiation of an independent research career may best be described as “the best and worst of times”, which is a sentiment I can wholeheartedly attest to. As a fledgling academic I was intrigued by the work of Schrock 2 on the then emerging chemistry of nucleophilic, Tebbe-type, carbene complexes and decided to utilize these intermediates in an approach to the molecule of the moment—taxol 3 —unfortunately none of this work ...