Resumen de Chronology of a Difficult Synthesis

Fredric M. Menger, Jennifer L. Sorrells

• This article describes a short synthesis and many of the difficulties experienced while carrying it out (e.g., low yields, impurities, racemization, nonrepeatable literature preps, etc.). As such, students will be educated in aspects of synthetic organic chemistry that are often down-played, or even not mentioned, in published syntheses.