Acknowledgment. This investigation was supported by Grant GM 21328 from the National Institutes of Health. ... Design, Synthesis, and Study of Simple Monocyclic ... KC Nicolaou,*** G. Zuccarello, C. Riemer, VA Estevez, and W.-M. Dai ... Contribution of the Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research institute, 10666 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, and Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, ...