The total synthesis of a bisanthraquinone natural product provides the opportunity to investigate the medicinal properties of a new class of antibiotics.

A mechanistically divergent method is described that, employing a commercially available hypervalent iodine(III) reagent, generates alkoxy radicals from 1°, 2°, and 3° alcohols and allows their use in ...

Although our previous study ruled out the possibility that two sets of NMR spectra could arise from a single hemiacetal structure due to hemiacetal isomer formation, (1) the observation of four ...