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A biosynthetic proposal for ring formation in the antitumor agent halichomycin. Asymmetric synthesis of the AB-carbon backbone of halichomycin.
Hale, Karl J,Dimopoulos, Paschalis,Cheung, Maxine L F,Frigerio, Mark,Steed, Jonathan W,Levett, Philip C
, p. 897 - 900 (2002)
[reaction: see text] A biosynthetic proposal for ring formation in the antitumor agent halichomycin is presented in which macrocyclization of the putative prehalichomycin intermediate 1 is the first step. Compound 2 then undergoes dehydration to the alpha
