Sh. Chen et al., TAXOL STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY-RELATIONSHIPS - SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF 2-DEOXYTAXOL, Tetrahedron letters, 34(20), 1993, pp. 3205-3206
2-Deoxy taxol 2 was prepared in nine steps from baccatin III; the key
step of the synthesis is a Barton-type deoxygenation at C-2. The compo
und was found to possess much reduced antitumor activity with respect
to taxol.