title: Construction of the Complete Aromatic Core of Diazonamide A by a Novel Hetero Pinacol Macrocyclization Cascade Reaction We thank Drs. D. H. Huang and G. Suizdak for NMR spectroscopic and mass spectrometric assistance, respectively. Financial support for this work was provided by The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, the National Institutes of Health (USA), American Biosciences, a predoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation (S.A.S.), a postdoctoral fellowship from the Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (N.G.), and grants from Abbott, Amgen, Array Biopharma, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Glaxo, Hoffmann-LaRoche, DuPont, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, and Schering Plough.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology The Scripps Research Institute 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037 (USA).
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