Chemoenzymatic Enantioselective Formal Synthesis of (-)-Gephyrotoxin-223

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1 Department of Chemistry, Alzahra University, Tehran, I.R. IRAN

2 Departement de Chimie, Faculte des sciences et de genie, Universite Laval, Quebec, G1K 7P4, CANADA

3 Department of Chemistry, University of Tehran, Tehran, I.R. IRAN

Abstract

(-)-Gephyrotoxin-223 was formally synthesized from chiral synthon 1 which has been chemoenzymatically synthesized  in the presence  of Candida Antartica lipase.
 
 
 
 

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