A New Anticancer Drug

After some six years of hard work, a research team headed by Prof. Liu Zhiyu (Z.Y. Liu) at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS, has scored major progress in independently generating a novel cancer killer called epothilone. Their findings have been granted three patents, and their research paper Total Synthesis of Epothilone: A Thorough Stereospe-cific Expoxidation of the 3-o-(4-methoxy) Benzyl Ether of Epothilone C has been accepted for publication in the Chemistry - European Journal.Over the past decade, Taxol has