Thieme Gruppe, Synlett: Accounts and Rapid Communications in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 20(2006), p. 3423-3426, 2006
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An expeditious two-step procedure was developed to accede to new tetraamide macrocycles. The key step of this diversity-oriented procedure is a highly efficient Mukaiyama salt promoted macrobislactamization. Preliminary mechanistic investigations are also reported.