Recent studies in natural products total synthesis

ORGN 59

Larry E. Overman, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, 1102 Natural Sciences II, Irvine, CA 92697-2025
Natural products continue to reveal new structural motifs that serve as a stimulus for the development of new methods and strategies in organic synthesis. This lecture will describe recent efforts at Irvine to develop efficient total syntheses of rare, structurally unique natural products such as the ones depicted below.