C-H arylation of cyclopropanes

Nicolai Cramer and co-worker from ETH Zurich have reported in ACIE on a C-H arylation of cyclopropanes.

ACIE paper

Steroid rearrangement

Hans Gunther-Schmalz and colleagues have reported in Organic Letters on a BF3-promoted rearrangement of a steroid backbone.

OL paper

Mersicarpine synthesis

Hidetoshi Tokuyama and co-workers from the University of Toyama have reported in Organic Letters on their synthesis of mersicarpine.

OL paper

C-C bond cleavage via SnCl4

Matthias Brewer and co-workers at the University of Vermont have reported in Organic Letters on a tin promoted C-C bond cleavage.

OL paper

Trigonoliimine progress

Yian Shi and co-workers have reported in Organic Letters on their progress towards trigonoliimines using an anion cascade to form the seven membered ring.

OL paper

Reaction after another

Corey Stephenson and colleague at Boston University have reported in Organic Letters on an iridium catalyzed tandem reaction using visible light – the reaction forms a divinyl cyclopropane intermediate that undergoes a Cope rearrangement.

OL paper

Desymmetrize this

Keiji Maruoka and co-workers from Kyoto University have reported in JACS on a desymmetrization process of a cyclohexanone using an alphadiazoacetate reagent to afford seven membered rings.

JACS paper

Rippertenol synthesis

Scott Snyder and co-workers have reported in JACS on their synthesis of rippertenol.

JACS paper

Large scale cortistatin

Phil Baran and co-workers have reported in JACS on their large scale synthesis of cortistatins.

JACS paper

Seven membered rings by opening cyclopropane

Hans-Gunther Schmalz and co-workers at the Universitat zu Koln have published in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry on the synthesis of some seven membered rings from a cyclopropyl ketone ring opening using a Lewis acid.

European JOC paper