id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt tb09j388f51 Eric Stefan Novel Access to Methyl Substituted Polyketide Structural Units Through 1,5-Hydride Shift and Ether Transfer: Application to the Syntheses of Diospongins A and B and Towards Lyngbyaloside C 2013 .txt text/plain 325 11 24 This dissertation comprises three major components that sequentially describe the development of three methodologies for the formation of novel methyl substituted polyketide structural units and their application in complex molecule synthesis. Starting from 1,1-disubstituted alkenes, this transformation enabled us to stereoselectively access tertiary ethers. cache/tb09j388f51.txt txt/tb09j388f51.txt