Lambert Tristan H, Danishefsky Samuel J
Laboratory for Bioorganic Chemistry, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York, New York 10021, USA.
J Am Chem Soc. 2006 Jan 18;128(2):426-7. doi: 10.1021/ja0574567.
The enantioselective total synthesis of the telomerase inhibitor UCS1025A has been accomplished. The key transformation involves a remarkable boron Reformatsky coupling of iodolactone 13 and aldehyde 17.