“…[62] In total, this route was completed in 26 steps in 0.3 %yield and employed an exo-selective Diels-Alder reaction as the key step.S everal analogues were also made by using the same approach. In the following years,c opious synthetic and SAR studies of enediyne analogues of the dynemicin core were performed by the groups of Schreiber, [61a,d] Wender, [63] Nicolaou, [61b, 64] Isobe, [65] Myers, [62a, 66] Danishefsky, [61g, 67] Maier, [68] Magnus, [69] and others. [64a,d,70] These studies probed the effects of triggering groups or initiators on the nitrogen atom or aryl ring, which could be activated under basic or photochemical conditions that could be mimicked by intracellular processes.T ethering devices were also investigated to aid target delivery,a sw ere deactivating groups that would modulate enediyne activity,aswell as detection devices that would facilitate mechanistic studies.…”