Aetheramides A and B

Rolf Mueller and co-workers at Universität des Saarlandes have reported in Organic Letters on some anti-HIV depsipeptides with 15 nM IC50 values.

OL paper

Benzyne cascade

Richard Hsung and co-workers at the University of Wisconsin have reported in Organic Letters on a synthesis of chelidonine.

OL paper

Bi-mediated [3+2]

Elisabet Dunac and co-workers from CNRS have reported in Organic Letters on a Bi(OTf)3 mediated [3+2] between an allene and aryl group.

OL paper

Ilicifoliunines A and B

Vania Santos and co-workers at UNESP in Brazil have reported in JNP on the isolation of some anti-protozoal alkaloids, ilicifoliunines A and B.

JNP paper

Platinum catalyzed dearomatization

Ken Tanaka and co-workers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have reported in ACIE on a platinum catalyzed dearomatization reaction.

ACIE paper

Chromium cascade

Nobuhara Iwasawa and co-workers at Tokyo Institute of Technology have reported in ACIE on a chromium catalyzed cascade.

ACIE paper

Englerin A formal synthesis

Kathlynn Parker and colleague have reported in Organic Letters on a formal synthesis of englerin A.

OL paper

Merrilactone synthesis

Hongbin Zhai and co-workers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have published in ACIE on the synthesis of merrilactone where they used a Pauson-Khand reaction as one of the key steps.

ACIE paper

GB-13 synthesis

David Evans and co-workers have reported in JACS on their synthesis of GB-13.

JACS paper

Ferrier type cascade

Joseph Kim and co-workers at Sanofi have reported in Tetrahedron Letters on a Ferrier type reaction.

TL paper