Roxbin B

Hidetoshi Yamada and co-workers at Kwansei Gakuin University have reported in JOC on a structural reassignment concluding that roxbin B is cuspinin.

JOC paper

polyflavanostilbene A

Peicheng Zhang and co-workers from Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences have reported in Org Lett on the isolation of polyflavanostilbene A.

OL paper

Why sugars are important

Here’s an editorial on why sugar chemistry is so important.

 

Science article

Reversing multi-drug resistance with glycosides

Rogelio Pereda-Miranda and co-workers at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México have reported in JNP on some glycosides that had reversed the multi-drug resistance in vinblastine resistant human breast cancer cells.

JNP paper

Ceposides

Virginia Lanzotti and co-workers from Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II in Italy have reported in Phytochemistry on the isolation of antifungal saponins from white onions.

Phytochemistry paper

Scleropentasides

Tripetch Kanchanapoom and co-workers at Chulabhorn Research Institute in Thailand have reported in Phytochemistry on the isolation of scleropentasides.

Phytochemistry paper

Unsaturated glucuronyl hydrolase mechanism

Stephen Withers and colleague at the University of British Columbia have reported in JACS on a mechanistic study of a glycosidic cleavage.

JACS paper

Sialic acid synthesis

Xue-Wei Liu and co-workers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have reported in ACIEE on the synthesis of sialic acid starting from a dihydropyran.

ACIEE paper

Heparin’s chemoenzymatic synthesis

Jian Liu and co-workers at UNC have reported in Science on a chemoenzymatic synthesis of the sulfated glycan, heparin – a blood thinner.

 

Science paper

Glycolipids

Hans-Joachim Knolker and co-workers at Technische Universität Dresden have reported in Synlett on their isolation of some glycolipids from C. elegans.

Synlett paper