History of Epothilones The Total Synthesis Race

Modem Aldol Reactions. Vol. 1 Enolates, Organocatalysis, Biocatalysis and Natural Product Synthesis. Edited by Rainer Mahrwald 

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The first total synthesis was published by Danishefsky et al. [10], shortly followed by independent routes from Nicolaou et al. [11] and Schinzer et al. [12]. 

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