Recent Progress in the Chemical Synthesis of Antibiotics and Related Microbial Products Vol. 2: Volume 2

Cyclization Methods Related to the Synthesis of Macrolide Antibiotics.- Progress in the Total Synthesis of Spirotetronic Acid Macrolide Antibiotics.- Convergent Stereospecific Total Synthesis of Monocillin I and Monorden (or Radicicol).- Recent Progress in the Chemical Modification of Erythromycin.- Chemistry of FK - 506.- The “Enediyne” Antibiotics Calicheamicin ?1I, Esperamicin-Ar and Dynemicin-A: Physicochemical and Biological Properties-Partial and Total Synthesis.- Synthesis and Chemistry of Neocarzinostatin Analogs.- Synthesis of Nogalamycin and Related Substances.- Total Synthesis of Aryl C-Glycoside Antibiotics.- Total Synthesis of the Antifungal Antibiotic Ambruticin.- Synthetic Approaches to Methylenomycin B and Analogs.- The Orthosomycin Antibiotics.- ? -Unsubstituted ? -Lactams as Synthons for Antibiotics.- Chemistry and Synthesis of some Novel ? -Lactam Antibiotics and ? -Lactamase Inhibitors.- Recent Advances in the Chemistry and Biochemistry of ? -Lactams as ? -Lactamase Inhibitors.- Chemistry of Biologically Important Hydroxylated Indolizidines Synthesis of Swainsonine, Castanospermine and Slaframine.- The Chemistry and Total Synthesis of Mevinolin and Related Compounds.- Synthetic Efforts Towards Cerulenin and Tetrahydrocerulenin.