@article{pittir19879, volume = {43}, number = {35}, month = {September}, author = {Y Shin and JH Fournier and Y Fukui and AM Br{\"u}ckner and DP Curran}, title = {Total synthesis of (-)-dictyostatin: Confirmation of relative and absolute configurations}, journal = {Angewandte Chemie - International Edition}, pages = {4634 -- 4637}, year = {2004}, url = {http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/19879/}, abstract = {Will the real dictyostatin please stand up? There were five finalists as stereostructures for the potent anticancer agent dictyostatin; ten, if one were to include enantiomers. A total synthesis of (-)-dictyostatin (1) has ended the decade-old masquerade and identified the winner as a structure recently proposed by Paterson and Wright.} }