Liotta, Dennis

The authors thank Ahmed F. Abdel-Magid, David A. Cherry, Joseph H. Childers, Robert J. Duda, John T. Hortensine, and John E. Mills for their support in providing standards and samples. We thank Dennis C. Liotta and his students, who worked on the LANA process, and David A. Cherry and John E. Mills for their contributions to the LANA process development. We thank Daksha M. Desai and Robin C. Stanzione for their helpful discussion of the principles of reversed phase liquid chromatography. 

From a humanitarian perspective, a market-driven approach to drug development often leaves unaddressed the diseases of less-developed nations. Nations with a low per capita income are less able to contribute to an economically profitable drug. Some scientists have attempted to address this situation. For example, Dennis Liotta of Emory University spearheaded the creation of iThemba Pharmaceuticals in 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa. iThemba specifically targets novel treatments for HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, three exceptionally common diseases in Africa.3... 

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KEVIN A. SWISS and DENNIS C. LIOTTA Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA... 

Christopher J. MacNevin cmacnev emory.edu, Dennis C. Liotta dliotta emory.edu, Donald G. Stein, dstei04 emory.edu, and Iqbal Sayeed, isayeed emory.edu. (1) Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, (2) Emory University School of Medicine Brain Research Laboratory, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322... 

Shu Kobayashi of the University of Tokyo found Organic Lett. 2008,10, 807) that the conjugate addition of 25 to 24 mediated by a chiral Ca catalyst proceeded with high enantiocontrol at both of the newly formed stereogenic centers, to give 26. In a chiral auxiliary based approach, Dennis C. Liotta foimd J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73,1264) that condensation of 27 with 28 gave predominantly just two of the possible four diastereomeric azetines. Alkylation of the cis diastereomer, followed by benzoylation and hydrolysis, then delivered the a-quatemary 3-amino acid derivative 29 as a single enantiomerically-pure diastereomer. 

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