DYKAT

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

OL paper

Determination of stereochemistry on a small scale

Scptt Rychnovsky and co-workers have reported in JACS on a clever way to determine the stereochemical configuration of a primary amine by using mass spectrometry.  This may be useful when you only have a small amount of material.

JACS paper

Deracemization via ketene dithioacetal intermediate

Benjamin List and colleague have reported in JACS on a deracemization reaction taking advantage of a ketene-dithioacetal intermediate.

JACS paper

DKR of alpha-keto esters

Jeffrey Johnson and co-workers from UNC have reported in JACS on a dynamic kinetic resolution of substituted alpha-keto esters.

JACS paper

Kinetic resolution with amidine

Vladimir Birman and co-workers at Washington University in St. Louis have reported in JOC on a kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols using an amidine catalyst.

JOC paper

Putaminoxin synthesis

Biswanath Das and co-workers at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology have reported in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry on the synthesis of

European JOC paper

Portentol via Prins

Pierre van de Weghe and co-workers at Université de Rennes have reported in Organic Letters on their progress towards portentol using a Prins reaction.

OL paper

 

Kinetic resolution with NHC

Jeffrey Bode and co-workers at ETH Zurich have reported in JACS on a kinetic resolution of cyclic secondary amides using N-heterocyclic carbenes as an organocatalyst.

JACS paper

Resolve this

Vladimir Birman and co-workers from Washington University in Missouri have reported in Chemistry a European Journal on a kinetic resolution of alpha-substituted alkanoic acids (the substituent includes halogens and alkyl groups).

Chemistry a European Journal paper

Bis-gold carbene complex

Dean Toste and co-workers have reported in JACS on a use of a funky bis-gold carbene complex that transforms propargyl esters into pyran compounds.

JACS paper