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Lester A. Mitscher

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Selected Publications

E. J. Gentry, H. Telikepalli, P. Srinivas and L. A. Mitscher, Tetraacyldiborates. Selective and efficient acylation reagents suitable for multiple parallel synthetic applications, Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening, 2003, 6, 139-145.

S. Menon, H. Vaidya, S. Pillai, R. Vidya and L. A. Mitscher, A demonstration library of indazoles containing novel antimutagenic/ antioxidant leads, Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening, 2003, 6, 471-480.

L. A. Mitscher and R. Cooper, Echinacea and Immunostimulation in Herbal and Traditional Medicine: Molecular Basis of Health, L. Packer, C. N. Ong and B. Halliwell, Eds., 2004, M. Dekker, NY, 721-756.

L. A. Mitscher, Contemporary Drug Discovery, in Process Chemistry, M. Chorgade, Ed., 2004, J. Wiley and Sons, Inc., N.Y., in press.

L. A. Mitscher, A Modern Look at Folkloric Use of Anti-infective Agents, in Handbook of Medicinal Plants, Z. Yaniv and U. Bachrach, Eds., Haworth Press, Inc., NY., in press.

L. A. Mitscher and A. Dutta. “Combinatorial Chemistry” in Burger’s Medicinal Chemistry, Sixth Ed., Wiley and Sons, NY, 2003, Vol. 2, 2-36.

R. A. Fecik, P. Devasthale, S. Pillai, A. Keschavarz-Shokri, L. Shen and L. A. Mitscher. Chiral DNA Gyrase Inhibitors. 3. Probing the chiral preference of the active site of DNA gyrase. Synthesis of 10-fluoro-6-methyl-6,7-dihydro-9-piperazinyl-2H-benzo[a]quinolizine-2-one-3-carboxylic acid analogs. J. Med. Chem. 2005. 1229-36.

Mitscher, L. A. Bacterial topoisomerase inhibitors: quinolone and pyridone antibacterial agents. Chem Rev., 2005, 105, 559-592.

J. B. Laursen, J. Nielsen, T. Haack, S. Pusuluri, S. David, R. Balakrishna, Y. Zheng, Z. Ma, T. B. Doyle and L. A. Mitscher. Further exploration of antimicrobial ketodihydronicotinic acid derivatives by multiple parallel syntheses. J. Med. Chem., 2005, submitted.

L. A. Mitscher. Traditional Medicines. In Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry II, Volume 1, Elsevier, New York, 2005, submitted.

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Dr. Lester A. Mitscher
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
4070 Malott Hall
Tel: 785-864-4495
FAX: 785-864-5326
Email: lmitscher@ku.edu