Acknowledgment. This work was supported in Part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (HL-16029) and by a contract from the National Foundation for Cancer Research. We ... Studies on the Deconjugation-Epimerization Strategy en Route ... Stephen Hanessian,* Daniel Dub& and Paul J. Hodges ... Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Universitb de MontrCal, MontrPal. Qubbec, Canada H3C 357. Received May 4, 1987