On the eve of the World Cup, it's fun to reflect on how the 1994 tournament delayed the synthesis of brevetoxin B...

The original paper from #AngewChem is here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.199605881 ($)

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