Kinetic resolution with phosphoric acid

William Roush and co-workers have reported in Org Lett on a kinetic resolution using phosphoric acid.

OL paper

Phosphine catalyzed C-N bond formation

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

ACIE paper

No that’s not BINAP

N. P. Dhammika Nanayakkara and co-workers from the University of Mississippi have reported in JNP on the isolation of some compounds that look like BINAP.

JNP paper

Rhizopodin synthesis

Dirk Menche and co-workers from Universität Heidelberg have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of rhizopodin.

ACIE paper

Mycocyclosin synthesis

Craig Hutton and co-workers from the University of Melbourne have reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of mycocyclosin.

OL paper

Spirocycle formation

Trevor Rainey and colleague at Montana State University have reported in JACS on a palladium catalyzed cyclobutanol ring expansion to form a spirocycle.

JACS paper

Viriditoxin

Jared Shaw and co-workers at UC Davis have reported in Synthesis on their approach towards viriditoxin.

Synthesis paper

Desymmetrizing a meso compound

Pauline Chiu and co-workers from the University of Hong Kong have published in Tetrahedron Letters on a desymmetrization of a meso compound to form a five membered ring with modest ee (50% ee).

TL paper

Alpha-arylation

Matthew Gaunt and co-workers at the University of Cambridge and David Macmillan and co-workers at Princeton have independently published in JACS on hypervalent iodide mediated alpha-arylations of amides.

JACS paper 1

JACS paper 2

Alstoscholarine Syntheses

Jieping Zhu and co-workers at CNRS have reported in ACIEE on a synthesis of alstoscholarine – what a scholarly piece of work.

ACIEE paper