Diyne desymmetrization

Ulrich Hennecke and co-workers at the Universitat Munster have reported in JAC on a desymmetrization of a diyne.

JACS paper

Desymmetrizing oxetanes

Jianwei Sun and co-workers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have reported in ACIE on a desymmetrization of oxetanes using a phosphoric acid catalyst.

ACIE paper

Transtaganolide syntheses

Brian Stoltz and co-workers have reported in ACIE on the syntheses of transtaganolides through an Ireland-Claisen rearrangement/Diels-Alder cascade.

ACIE paper

Cinchona alkaloid catalyzed proton transfer

Jin-Pei Cheng and co-workers from Nankai University have reported in JACS on a biomimetic proton transfer.

JACS paper

Hypervalent iodine promoted aryl shift

Thomas Wirth and co-workers at Cardiff University have reported in ACIE on a hypervalent iodine reagent promoted migration of an aryl group.

ACIE paper

Aspidophytine synthesis

Fayang Qiu and co-workers at Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported in ACIE on a synthesis of aspidophytine.

ACIE paper

DYKAT

Jeffrey Johnson and co-workers at UNC have reported in Org Lett on a dynamic kinetic resolution.

OL paper

Ni-catalyzed acyl cross-coupling

Sarah Reisman and co-workers have reported in JACS on a Ni-catalyzed coupling of an aryl chloride and acyl chloride.

JACS paper

[3,3]-Sigmatropic

Laszlo Kurti and co-workers from UT Southwestern have reported in JACS on a [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement approach to access BINAM derivatives using a phosphoric acid catalyst.

JACS paper

Which point group is that organocatalyst?

Hiromichi Fujioka and co-workers from Osaka University have reported in Organic Letters on a kinetic resolution of a  bromo-carboxylic acid using a C3-symmetric organocatalyst.

OL paper