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Synthetic Communications
An International Journal for Rapid Communication of Synthetic Organic Chemistry
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Fragment Assembly: An Alternative Approach to Generating Complex Polyketides

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Pages 1735-1743 | Received 19 Dec 2005, Published online: 22 Aug 2006

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