Useful four-carbon synthons en route to monastrol analogs

Amr M. Abdou^{a b}, Samir Botros^c, Rasha A. Hassan^{a c}, Mona Monir Kamel^c, Douglass F. Taber^{a d}✉, Azza T. Taher^c

1. ^aDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
2. ^bDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, National Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt
3. ^cDepartment of Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
4. ^dDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 (USA)
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