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Studies on the Synthesis and Opioid Agonistic Activities of Mitragynine-Related Indole Alkaloids:  Discovery of Opioid Agonists Structurally Different from Other Opioid Ligands

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Direct Stereo- and Enantiocontrolled Synthesis of Vicinal Stereogenic Quaternary Carbon Centers. Total Syntheses of <i>meso</i>- and (−)-Chimonanthine and (+)-Calycanthine

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Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Quaternary Carbons Bearing Two Aryl Substituents. Enantioselective Synthesis of 3-Alkyl-3-Aryl Oxindoles by Catalytic Asymmetric Intramolecular Heck Reactions

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Chemistry of oxaziridines. 14. Asymmetric oxidation of ketone enolates using enantiomerically pure (camphorylsulfonyl)oxaziridine

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Dimerization of indole derivatives with hypervalent iodines(III): a new entry for the concise total synthesis of rac- and meso-chimonanthines

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