Total synthesis of membrenones A-C, dynamic kinetic Hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition, and progress toward a total synthesis of peloruside A
By: by Matthew Allen Schiffler
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Natural products; Synthesis; Antimitotic agents; Diels-Alder reaction; Polyketide; Catalysis; Ring formation (Chemistry)
Other titles: Dynamic kinetic Hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition; Toward a total synthesis of peloruside A; Kinetic resolution in the synthesis of polyketide natural products
Notes: Thesis advisor: Professor Eric N. Jacobsen."

"October, 2008."

Thesis (Ph.D., Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology)--Harvard University, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references.