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This book describes a novel strategy for the synthesis of erythronolides which are analogues of the antibiotic Erythromycin. In the era of growing antibacterial resistance, the work described here may be relevant in the development of new antibiotics. This work which includes development of unprecedented synthetic methodologies and strategies aims to reduce the number of synthetic steps to almost half of what had been previously reported for the past 3 decades.

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Professor Partha Ghosh received his Ph.D. at the Rutgers University, USA under the supervision of professor Lawrence J. Williams. He did his postdoc under professor Jeffrey Aubé at the University of Kansas . He is currently an assistant professor in the department of applied chemistry in Central University of Jharkhand,India.

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