Hydrocarbamoylation

Erick Carreira and colleague have reported in JACS on a ruthenium catalyzed hydrocarbamoylation.

JACS paper

Enamine and alkynes to pyrroles

Lutz Ackermann and colleague at Georg-August-Universität have reported in Organic Letters on the reaction between examines and alkynes to form pyrroles.

OL paper

Cyclic carbonate to diols and methanol

Kuiling Ding and co-workers from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry have reported in ACIE on the ruthenium catalyzed cyclic carbonate transformation to diols and methanol. Cyclic carbonates are a product of CO2 and epoxides the first product of the Shell omega process.

ACIE paper

FD-895 synthesis

Michael Burkart and James J. La Clair and colleagues at UCSD have reported in Org Lett on the synthesis of

OL paper

Englerin A formal synthesis

Kathlynn Parker and colleague have reported in Organic Letters on a formal synthesis of englerin A.

OL paper

Fluorous mixture synthesis application

Dennis Curran and co-workers at the University of Pittsburgh have applied fluorous mixture synthesis to assign the stereochemistry of a macrolide.  Fluorous mixture synthesis is a technique where they install fluorinated tag protecting groups on the alcohols where each tag varies by the number of fluorines.  They are able to separate the tagged compounds based on the number of flourines on the tags.

JACS paper

Science paper

Oxygen transfer

Yoshihiko Yamamoto and co-workers from Nagoya University have reported in JACS on the formation of a furan from diynes.

JACS paper

Oxyingenol synthesis

Hideo Kigoshi and co-workers from the University of Tsukuba have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of oxyingenol.

ACIE paper

[2+2+2] for endoperoxides

Tehshik Yoon and co-workers at the University of Wisconsin have reported in Organic Letters on a [2+2+2] cyclization approach to form endoperoxides using oxygen (ie:  O2).

OL paper

Ru-catalyzed Ficini reaction

Antonio Mezzetti and co-workers from ETH Zurich have reported in Synthesis on ruthenium catalyzed Ficini reaction.

Synthesis paper