Multi-carbon building blocks

Preparation of Carbon-14-Labeled Compounds via Multi-Carbon Building Blocks of the [ CJCarbon Dioxide Tree... 

Ajayan et al., 2003). Both single- and multi-walled carbon nanotubes have become ideal nanoscale-building blocks for nanoengineering. A lot of studies suggest that CNTs have extensive commercial application potential in medical chemistry and biomedical engineering. 

The usefulness of the Wittig and related reactions in facilitating crucial carbon-carbon bond-formation steps in multi-step chemical syntheses has been demonstrated by many examples of the construction of useful complex molecules such as natural products. Some successfiil constructions of optically active functionalized building blocks with chiral HWE reagents for the total synthesis of natural products have already been discussed in this chapter [12a, 45, 59-61, 78], and additional examples, which have recently been reported, are mentioned here. 

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