Scott Snyder and co-workers at Columbia University have reported in JACS on a synthetic transformation towards bromoethers from alkenes.

Posted by naturalproductman on September 18, 2011
Scott Snyder and co-workers at Columbia University have reported in JACS on a synthetic transformation towards bromoethers from alkenes.

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Posted by naturalproductman on June 17, 2011
Toshio Nishikawa and colleague at Nagoya University have reported in ACIEE on their synthesis of saxitoxinol, an analog of saxitoxin.

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Posted by naturalproductman on April 26, 2011
Waro Nakanishi and co-worker at Wakayama University and Masahiro Ochiai and co-workers at the University of Tokushima have reported in Science on a hypervalent bromine that inserts a nitrogen into alkanes.
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