3 rings from 1

Jiong Yang and co-workers from Texas A&M have reported in JOC on a transannular Michael reaction.

JOC paper

Substituted THPs from cascade

Aurelio Csaky and co-workers from Universidad have reported in Organic Letters on an interesting way to form substituted tetrahydropyran rings.

OL paper

Towards landomycinone

Emmanuel Roulland and colleague at CNRS have reported in the European JOC on their progress towards landomycinone.

European JOC paper

Stenine synthesis

Hongbin Zhang and co-workers at Yunnan University have reported in ACIEE on their synthesis of stenine.

ACIEE paper

Celastrol and sulfur adducts

Richard Silverman and co-workers at Northwestern have reported in JACS on celastrol as a Michael acceptor.

JACS paper

Transannular Michael

Gerald Pattenden and colleague at the University of Nottingham have reported in Tetrahedron on the synthesis of ineleganolide via a Michael reaction.

Tetrahedron paper

Subincanadine C synthesis

Hongbin Zhai and co-workers from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry have reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of subincanadine C.

OL paper

Organocatalytic oxy-Michael

Seirjiro Matsubara and colleague at Kyoto University have reported in JACS on an organocatalytic oxy-Michael reaction.

JACS paper

Aplyviolene synthesis

Larry Overman and colleague have reported in JACS on a total synthesis of aplyviolene.  Surprisingly, the bromide in the alpha-bromo enone Michael acceptor substrate did not get displaced.

JACS paper

Michael followed by Pictet-Spengler

Xiaoyu Wu and co-workers at Shanghai University have reported in Chemistry a European Journal on a reaction that involves two named reaction using an indole tethered with a primary amine and an alkynoate as the subtrates.

Chemistry a European Journal paper