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Synfacts 2010(1): 0010-0010  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1218398
Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs
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Synthesis of Ravuconazole

Contributor(s): Philip Kocienski
J. Pesti*, C.-K. Chen*
Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Company, New Brunswick, USA
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21 December 2009 (online)

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Significance

Ravuconazole is a broad-spectrum antifungal agent with the longest half-life of all of the known azole antifungals. The synthesis depicted is noteworthy for the safe use of highly ­toxic, corrosive and combustible diethyl dithiophosphate (M) and the safe generation of LiCN in situ from acetone cyanohydrin (K).