Ramoplanin: Synthetic and mechanistic studies

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Dale L. Boger, boger@scripps.edu, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Rd, La Jolla, CA 92037
Studies on the total synthesis of ramoplanin, a potent lipoglycopeptide antibiotic that inhibits bacterial cell wall biosynthesis, and its extension to key analogues will be described in efforts to probe fundamental features of its mechanism of action.