1. American Society of Pharmacognosy Research Achievement Award lecture, presented at the Joint Meeting of the American Society of Pharmacognosy, the Association Française pour l'Enseignement et la Recherche en Pharmacognosie, the Gesellschaft für Arzneipflanzenforschung, and the Phytochemical Society of Europe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 27, 1999.
2. The chemical compound represented by structure1was named taxol by its discoverers in 1971, and this name was universally used in the literature for over 20 years until Bristol-Myers Squibb trademarked the name Taxol for its formulation of taxol; the name paclitaxel was then recommended for the chemical substance1. Because of the historical nature of this review, the name taxol will be used for the compound of structure1. No infringement of the Bristol−Myers Squibb trademark is intended or implied by this usage.
3. Suffness, M.; Wall, M. E. InTaxol: Science and Applications; Suffness, M., Ed.; CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, 1995; pp 3−25.
4. Photocyclization of aryl-substituted acetylenesi application of di-.pi.-methane-like rearrangements to arylcyclopropene syntheses