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Preparation and Application of Cyclic Chiral Organoboron Compounds for the Stereoselective Synthesis of Vacquinol-1 Analogs, and Trisubstituted Cyclobutylboronates
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Boron is a versatile atom in synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry. The formation of a variety of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds, and the ability to act as a pharmacophore makes boron a powerful tool in drug discovery. An area of drug discovery that remains underexplored with boron...
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Synthesis of Lipopolysaccharide O-antigens from Klebsiella pneumoniae Serotype O2a as Molecular Probes for Biosynthetic Studies
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Many Gram-negative bacteria are pathogenic organisms that can cause disease and death. As antibiotic resistance and nosocomial disease occurrences both increase, these infections are becoming more problematic. These issues can be partially attributed to lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which is a major...
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Fall 2011
The pradimicins are natural products that are both structurally intriguing to a synthetic chemist and possess biological activity as antifungal and antiviral agents. Our interest towards designing a synthetic route for these compounds and various analogues was sparked by the potential to produce...
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α-exo-Alkylidene γ-lactones and γ-lactams via 2-alkoxycarbonyl allylboronates: mechanistic studies, diversity-oriented synthesis and target-oriented synthesis
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Allylboration reactions have been thoroughly utilized in organic chemistry since it was discovered that they could add in a nucleophilic fashion to aldehydes and ketones in 1964. Modification of allylboronates and the substrates that they can react with has been the focus of many research groups...