Nicolaou

Halide derivatives may be fluorides, chlorides, or bromides. Fluorides are best prepared by the reaction of hydroxy groups with (diethylamino)sulfur trilluoride ( DAST M. Sharma, 1977) or of glycosyl thioethers with DAST/NBS (K.C. Nicolaou, 1990 B). The other halides are usually only introduced at the glycosidic position, where treatment with hydrogen chloride... 

In the last fifteen years macrolides have been the major target molecules for complex stereoselective total syntheses. This choice has been made independently by R.B. Woodward and E.J. Corey in Harvard, and has been followed by many famous fellow Americans, e.g., G. Stork, K.C. Nicolaou, S. Masamune, C.H. Heathcock, and S.L. Schreiber, to name only a few. There is also no other class of compounds which is so suitable for retrosynthetic analysis and for the application of modem synthetic reactions, such as Sharpless epoxidation, Noyori hydrogenation, and stereoselective alkylation and aldol reactions. We have chosen a classical synthesis by E.J. Corey and two recent syntheses by A.R. Chamberlin and S.L. Schreiber as examples. 

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