relation: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/16753/ title: SYNTHETIC STUDIES TOWARDS THE SYNTHESIS OF ANATOXIN-A(S) creator: Buck, Eric description: Three routes toward the total synthesis of the neurotoxin anatoxin-a(s) have been explored. They focus on the assembly of the backbone utilizing both Pd(0)- and Pd(II)-mediated processes. Our current route leads to a late-stage precursor of anatoxin-a(s), hydroxy guanidine 134, in 18 steps and in 8.0% overall yield utilizing an amidoalkylation step in the key cyclization. date: 2013-01-25 type: University of Pittsburgh ETD type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf language: en identifier: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/16753/1/Buck-Thesis.pdf identifier: Buck, Eric (2013) SYNTHETIC STUDIES TOWARDS THE SYNTHESIS OF ANATOXIN-A(S). Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)