Acortatarins syntheses

Gangarajula Sudhakar and co-workers at IICT have reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of acortatarins.

OL paper

Organocatalytic oxy-Michael

Seirjiro Matsubara and colleague at Kyoto University have reported in JACS on an organocatalytic oxy-Michael reaction.

JACS paper

Cycloheptenes using PIFA

Siegfried Waldvogel and co-workers at the University of Bonn have reported in European JOC on a hypervalent iodine mediated cyclization.

European JOC paper

Aspergillide synthesis

Srihari and colleague at IICT have reported in European JOC on the syntheses of aspergillide.

European JOC paper

Intramolecular [2+2]

Thorsten Bach and colleagues have reported in JACS on an intramolecular [2+2] photocycloaddition.

JACS paper

Aplyronine A-biotin derivative

Hideo Kogoshi and co-workers at the University of Tsukuba have reported in ACIEE on an aplyronine A probe that is biotinylated.

ACIEE paper

MCC with Sonogashira

Matthius Beller and co-workers at Universitat Rostock
Albert-Einstein-Strasse have reported in ACIEE on a palladium catalyzed carbonylative Sonogashira coupling.

ACIEE paper

Fluoride displacement via Sn2 prime

Jean-Francois Paquin and co-workers from the Universite Laval have reported in ACIEE on an Sn2 prime displacement of a fluoride group starting with an allylic bis-fluoride substrate to afford a vinyl fluoride.

ACIEE paper

Nickel catalyzed double C-H activation

Janis Louie and colleague have reported in ACIEE on a nickel catalyzed double C-H activation reaction.

ACIEE paper

Aminohydroxylation of alkenes

Timothy Donohoe and co-workers at the University of Oxford have reported in ACIEE on an intermolecular aminohydroxylation reaction of alkenes using an osmium catalyst.

ACIEE paper