Examples
Classical examples are the total syntheses of cholesterol, cortisone, strychnine, lysergic acid, reserpine, chlorophyll, colchicine, vitamin B12 and prostaglandin F-2a by the Nobel Prize winner Robert Burns Woodward between 1945 and 1976. Another classic is quinine total synthesis that has a history spanning 150 years. In some cases the structures of the molecules assigned by spectroscopic methods have been shown to be wrong, when synthesised.
Elias James Corey won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1990 for lifetime achievement in total synthesis and the development of retrosynthetic analysis. In 2005 the group of Corey published an aflatoxin total synthesis and in 2006 an oseltamivir total synthesis.
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