Hyeung-geun Park and co-workers at Seoul National University have reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of isonitramine.

An intramolecular Claisen reaction of a 1,6-diester to yield beta-ketoesters.
Posted by naturalproductman on January 17, 2012
Hyeung-geun Park and co-workers at Seoul National University have reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of isonitramine.

Posted in Alkaloids, Asymmetric, Dieckmann condensation, Methodology, Named Reactions, Total Synthesis | Leave a Comment »
Posted by naturalproductman on September 29, 2010
Sergey Kozmin and co-worker from the University of Chicago have published in JACS on the total synthesis of streptolydigin.

Posted in Antibiotics, Cascade Reactions, Dieckmann condensation, Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons olefination, Methodology, Named Reactions, Polyenes, Spirocycles, Spiroketals | Leave a Comment »
Posted by naturalproductman on September 20, 2010
Kuniaki Tatsuta and co-workers from Waseda University have published in Tetrahedron Letters on the total synthesis of lactonamycin.
Posted in Antibiotics, Cancer, Cascade Reactions, Dieckmann condensation, Methodology, Michael, Named Reactions, Polyketides | Leave a Comment »