Combining functionalization at a distant position from a reactive site with the creation of several consecutive stereogenic centres, including the formation of a quaternary carbon stereocentre, in ...

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To increase the oral availability of certain therapeutic compounds, chemists will sometimes tack an ester group onto the molecule. These so-called prodrugs have a longer physiological lifetime, ...

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