University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 12-2011 Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Congeners of Hydramycin, an Anthraquinone-Type Antitumor Agent Costyl Ngnouomeuchi Njiojob
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss Part of the Heterocyclic Compounds Commons, Organic Chemicals Commons, and the Polycyclic Compounds Commons Recommended Citation Njiojob, Costyl Ngnouomeuchi, "Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Congeners of Hydramycin, an Anthraquinone-Type Antitumor Agent. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2011. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/1210 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a dissertation written by Costyl Ngnouomeuchi Njiojob entitled "Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Congeners of Hydramycin, an Anthraquinone-Type Antitumor Agent." I have examined the final electronic copy of this dissertation for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, with a major in Chemistry. David C. Baker, Major Professor We have read this dissertation and recommend its acceptance: Shawn Campagna, Ben Xue, Elizabeth Howell Accepted for the Council: Carolyn R. Hodges Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School (Original signatures are on file with official studentecor r ds.) Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Congeners of Hydramycin, an Anthraquinone-Type Antitumor Agent A Dissertation Presented for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Costyl Ngnouomeuchi Njiojob December 2011 DEDICATION This dissertation is dedicated to my Parents Francois Ngnouomeuchi and Lydie T.