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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Oct 17.
Published in final edited form as: Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2007 Apr 6;17(12):3310–3313. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2007.04.001

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1

Reagents: (a) BH3, THF; H2O2, NaOH. (b) NaH, DMF; Br(CH2)6N3 (2). The sites of attachment of the 6-azidohexyl moieties to the squalane scaffold shown are arbitrary. Mixtures of all possible stereoisomers of 1 and egioisomers of 3 and 4 are produced.