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036. Total Synthesis of Stemarene and Betaerene Diterpenoids: Divergent Ring-Formation Strategy and Late-Stage C−H Functionalization

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035. Total Synthesis and Assignment of the Absolute Configuration of (+)-Omphalic Acid

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033. Divergent total syntheses of pseudoberberine and nitidine through C–H vinylation and switchable 6π electrocyclizations

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030. Structure-Activity Relationship Study Enables the Discovery of a Novel Berberine Analogue as RXRα Activator to Inhibit Colon Cancer

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029. Conformational design principles in total synthesis

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028. Recent progress in the total synthesis of marine brominated sesquiterpene aplydactone

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024. Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-Majusculoic Acid via a Dimerization–Dedimerization Strategy and Absolute Configuration Assignment

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020. Total Synthesis of Aplydactone by a Conformationally Controlled C−H Functionalization

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002. Synthesis of Asymmetric Propanetriol Analogues

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