Pulchranin A

Tatyana Makarieva and co-workers from the Russian Academy of Sciences have reported in Tetrahedron Letters on the isolation of pulchranin A.

TL paper

C-H amination of C12-position

Shuji Yamashita and co-workers from Tohoku University have reported in Tetrahedron Letters on a C-H amination of the C12-position of steroids.

Tetrahedron Letters paper

Spontaneous Diels-Alder

Craig Merlic and co-workers from UCLA have reported in Organic Letters on a spontaneous transannular Diels-Alder when they used a palladium catalyzed C-C bond forming strategy.

OL paper

Huperzine A synthesis

James White and co-workers have reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of huperzine A.

OL paper

Zamamiphidin A

Jun’ichi Kobayashi and co-workers from Hokkaido University have reported in Organic Letters on the isolation of zamamiphidin A.

OL paper

Asperterpenoid A

Zhigang She and co-workers from Sun-Yat Sen University have reported in Organic Letters on the isolation of asperterpenoid A, which had an IC50 value of 2.2 micromolar against Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein tyrosine phosphatase B (mPTPB).

OL paper

Phosphine catalyzed C-N bond formation

Greg Fu and co-workers reported on a C2-symmetric phosphine catalyst to

ACIE paper

Cinchona alkaloid derived catalyst for epoxidation

Norio Shibata and co-workers from the Nagoya Institute of Technology have reported in ACIE on an enantioselective epoxidation reaction using a cinchona alkaloid derived catalyst.

ACIE paper

Allylation

David Lupton and colleague from Monash University have reported in ACIE on a Tsuji-Trost approach for the synthesis of (−)-Kopsihainanine A.

ACIE paper

Aza-Diels-Alder

Eric Jacobsen and co-workers have published in JACS on an aza-Diels-Alder. I didn’t know the N. stood for Niels.

 

JACS paper