Natural products synthesis: enabling tools to penetrate Nature's secrets of biogenesis and biomechanism.

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Published in J Org Chem on April 12, 2011

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Robert M Williams1

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1: Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, United States. rmw@lamar.colostate.edu

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