Diyne desymmetrization

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

JACS 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

Oxazoles to pyridines

Pierre Yves-Renard and co-workers from CNRS have reported in Organic Letters on an interesting synthesis of pyridines.

OL paper

Triazole annulation

Huw Davies and colleague from Emory University have reported in JACS on an indole annulation using a triazole.

JACS paper

Rh-cascade

Ken Tanaka and co-workers at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have reported in Org Lett on a rhodium catalyzed cascade reaction to yield substituted cyclopentanones.

OL paper

Vinocrine synthesis

David Macmillan and colleague have reported in JACS on a synthesis of vinocrine.

JACS paper

Towards PF-1018

Dirk Trauner and co-workers at have reported in Organic Letters on a Stille-Diels Alder cascade approach towards PF-1018.

OL paper

Asymmetric aminoboration of alkenes

Masahiro Miura and co-workers from Osaka University have reported in JACS on an olefin difunctionalization.

JACS paper

Triyne to aromatic ring

Daesung Lee and co-workers at the University of Illinois in Chicago have reported in JACS on a silver promoted cascade involving a C-H insertion from a silver catalyzed aryne formation.

JACS paper

Iron catalyzed [2+2]

Paul Chirik and co-workers from Princeton have reported in JACS on a mechanistic study of an iron catalyzed [2+2].

JACS paper