Combinatorial Chemistry Review

Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Cis-2,5-Disubstituted Tetrahydrofurans

Scott D. Rychnovsky and Paul A. Bartlett; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1981, 103, 3963-3964

The synthesis of polyether antibiotics is currently receiving considerable attention. A particularly challenging aspect of this work is the stereocontrolled construction of the substituted tetrahydrofuran units found in many of these natural products, particularly those units in which there is a cis relationship between substituents at the 2 and 5 positions.

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