Synfacts 2005(0): 0010-0010  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-865347
Synthesis of Natural Products and Drugs
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Asymmetric Zn Aldol Additions: Asymmetric Synthesis of Fostriecin

Contributor(s): Philip Kocienski
B. M. Trost*, M. U. Frederiksen, J. P. N. Papillion, P. E. Harrington, S. Shin, B. T. Shireman
Stanford University, USA
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Publikationsdatum:
20. Juli 2005 (online)

Significance

Fostriecin is a metabolite of Streptomyces pulveraceous. It is a potent inhibitor of protein phosphatase 2A and it is cytotoxic towards leukemia and many other cell lines.