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Zammit, S. C.; Ferro, V.; Hammond, E.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2007, in press. Enantiospecific Synthesis of the Heparanase Inhibitor (+)-Trachyspic Acid and Stereoisomers from a Common Precursor.

Ganame, D.; Quach, T.; Poole, C.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, in press. Synthesis of the C9-C29 Fragments of Ajudazols A and B.

El Sous, M.; Ganame, D.; Zanatta, S.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Arkivoc, 2006, 7, 105. Total Synthesis of Spiroketal Containing Natural Products: Kinetic vs. Thermodynamic Approaches

Bunte, J. O.; Cuzzupe, A. N. Daly, A. M.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 6376. Formal Total Synthesis of (+)-Zaragozic Acid C Through an Ireland–Claisen Rearrangement.

Munro, T. A.; Goetchius, G. W.; Roth, B. L.; Vortherms, Rizzacasa, M. A. J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 10057. Autoxidation of Salvinorin A under Basic Conditions.

Zammit, S.; WHite, J. M.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2005, 3, 2073. Enantiospecific Synthesis of (–)-Trachyspic Acid.

El Sous, M.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 293. Biomimetic synthesis of the novel 1,4-dioxanyloxy fragment of silvestrol and episilvestrol.

Munro, T. A.; Rizzacasa, M. A.; Roth, B. R.; Toth, B. A.; Yan, F. J. Med. Chem. 2005, 48, 345. Studies Towards the Pharmacophore of Salvinorin A, a Potent k-Opioid Receptor Agonist.

El Sous, M.; Ganame, D.; Tregloan, P. A.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Org. Lett. 2004, 8, 3001. Total Synthesis of (–)-Reveromycin A.

Hilli, F.; White, J. M.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 1289. Formal Total Synthesis of (–)-Apicularen A via Transannular Conjugate Addition.

Zanatta, S. D.; White, J. M.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 1041. Total Synthesis of the Proposed Structure for Spirofungin B: A Reassignment of the Stereochemistry.

Cuzzupe, A. N.; Di Florio, R.; White, J. M.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2003, 1, 3572. Enantiospecific Synthesis of the Phospholipase A₂ Inhibitors (-)-Cinatrin C₁ and (+)-Cinatrin C₃.

Bigham, A. K.; Munro, T. A. Rizzacasa, M. A.; Robins-Browne, R. M. J. Nat. Prod. 2003, 66, 1242. Divinatorins A-C, New Neoclerodane Diterpinoids from the Controlled Sage Salvia divinorum.

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Czuba, I. R.; Zammit, S.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2003, 1, 2044. Total Synthesis of the Marine Sponge Metabolites (+)-Rottnestol, (+)-Raspailol A and (+)-Raspailol B.

Feutrill, J. T.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Aust. J. Chem. 2003, 56, 783. Total Synthesis of (+)-Crocacin A.

Munro, T. A.; Rizzacasa, M. A. J. Nat. Prod. 2003, 66, 703. Salvinorins D, E and F, New Neoclerodane Diterpenoids from Salvia Divinorum, and an Improved Method for the Isolation of Salvinorin A.

Holloway, G.; Hilli, F.; Hügel, H. M.; Rizzacasa M. A. J. Org. Chem. 2003, 68, 2200. Formal Total Synthesis of Salicylihalamides A and B.

Hilli, F.; White, J. M.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43. 8507. Synthesis of the Core of Apicularen A by Transannular Conjugate Addition.

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Cuzzupe, A. N.; Di Florio, R. Rizzacasa, M. A. J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 4392. Enantiospecific Synthesis of the Phospholipase A₂ Inhibitor (-)-Cinatrin B.

Lilly, M. J.; Feutrill, J. T.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Org. Lett.2002 , 4, 525. Total Synthesis of (+)-Crocacin D.

Cuzzupe, A. N.; Hutton, C. A.; Lilly, M. J.; Mann, R. K.; McRae, K. J.; Rizzacasa, M. A.; Zammit, S. C. J. Org. Chem. 2001, 66, 2382. Total Synthesis of the Epidermal Growth Factor Inhibitor (-)-Reveromycin B.

Feutrill, J. T.; Holloway, G.; Hilli, F.; Hügel, H. M.; Rizzacasa M. A. Tetrahedron Lett. 2000, 41, 8569. Synthetic Studies on the Salicylihalamides: Macrolactone Formation via Ring Closing Metathesis vs. Macrolactonization.

El Sous, M.; Rizzacasa, M. A.  Tetrahedron Lett. 2000, 41, 8591. Hetero-Diels Alder Synthesis of the Spiroketal Fragment of Reveromycin A.

Perkins, M.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Stoichiometric Asymmetric Synthesis, Postgraduate Chemistry Series Vol .5, Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, pp248.

Feutrill, J. T.; Lilly, M. J.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Org. Lett. 2000 , 2,3365. Total Synthesis of (+)-Crocacin C.

Czuba, I. R.; Rizzacasa, M. A. J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun.1999 , 1419. Total Synthesis of (+)-Rottnestol.

Di Florio, R.; Rizzacasa, M. A. J. Org. Chem.1998, 63, 8595. Synthesis of 2,2-Disubstituted Furanoid Natural Products: Total Synthesis of Sphydrofuran.

Rizzacasa, M. A. "Total Synthesis of Naphthylisoquinoline Alkaloids" in Studies in Natural Products Chemistry, Rahman Ed., Elsevier Science, 1998, Vol 20, pp 407-455.

Mann, R. K; Parsons, J. G.; Rizzacasa, M. A. J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1998, 1283. Towards the Synthesis of the Squalestatins/Zaragozic Acids: Synthesis of an Advanced Intermediate and Introduction of the C1 Sidechain.

Rizzacasa, M. A. "Synthesis of Naturally Occurring Oxygen Heterocycles" in Chemistry in Australia, 1998, July, p44-45.

McRae, K. J.; Rizzacasa, M. A. J. Org. Chem. 1997, 62 , 1197. Synthetic Studies Towards the Reveromycins: Asymmetric Synthesis of the Spiroketal Segment of Reveromycin B.

Chau, P.; Czuba, I. R.; Rizzacasa, M. A.; Bringmann, G.; Gulden, K. -P.; Schäffer, M. J. Org. Chem. 1996, 61, 7101. Convergent Synthesis of Naphthylisoquinoline Alkaloids: Total Synthesis of (+)-O -Methylancistrocline.

Gable, R. W.; Martin, R. L.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Aust. J. Chem. 1995, 48, 2013. A Synthetic Approach to (+)-Dioncophylline C.

Leighton, B. N.; Rizzacasa, M. A. J. Org. Chem. 1995, 60, 5702. Formal Synthesis of (-)-O-Methylancistrocladine.

Parsons, J. G.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Tetrahedron Lett. 1994, 35, 8263. Synthesis of the C-1 Sidechain of the Squalestatins and Zaragozic Acid A.

Gable, R.W.; McVinish, L.M.; Rizzacasa, M.A. Aust. J. Chem. 1994, 47, 1537. A Synthetic Approach to the Squalestatins and Zaragozic Acids. The Introduction of the C-5 Stereocentre Via an Ester-Enolate Claisen Rearrangement. The X-ray Crystal Structure of an Intermediate.

McVinish, L. M.; Rizzacasa, M. A. Tetrahedron Lett. 1994 , 35, 923. Synthetic Studies Towards the Squalestatins and Zaragozic Acids.