13-Demethyllyngbyaloside B synthesis

Haruhiko Fuwa and co-workers from Tohoku University have reported in Organic Letters on a synthesis of 13-demethyllyngbyaloside B.

OL paper

Ajudazol B synthesis

Dirk Menche and co-workers from the Universitat Bonn have reported in Organic Letters on a synthesis and stereochemical assignment from a bioinformatics study.

JACS paper

Light mediated rearrangement of natural products

Yoshito Kishi and co-workers have published in JACS on the photochemistry of mycolactone A and B.

JACS paper

Similarly Hong-Xiang Lou and co-workers at Shandong University have published in JACS on the light induced interconversion of pallambins.

OL paper

Shi epoxidation approach for glabrescol

Jin Qu and co-workers from Nankai University have reported in Organic Letters on a synthesis of a polytetrahydrofuranyl compound using Shi epoxidation of a polyolefin intermediate.

OL paper

Myxalamide synthesis

Susumu Kobayashi and co-workers at the Tokyo University of Science have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of myxalamide.

ACIE paper

Stelletin A

Wing-Keung Liu and co-workers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong have reported in JNP on the isolation of stellettin A.

JNP paper

Fucoxanthin synthesis

Shigeo Katsumara and co-workers at Kwansei Gakuin University have reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of fucoxanthin, an allene containing compound that almost looks like an oxygenated form of beta-carotene.

OL paper

Tirandamycin C synthesis

William Roush and colleague at Scripps in Florida have reported on the synthesis of tirandamycin C in Organic Letters.

OL paper

Compounds from a fungus

Nicholas Oberlies and co-workers at UNC Greensboro have reported in the Journal of Natural Products on the isolation of some peptides and sesquiterpenoids from the terrestrial filamentous fungus, Trichothecium sp.

JNP paper

Oxazolomycin A synthesis

Susumi Hatakeyama and co-workers from Nagasaki University have reported in Organic Letters on their synthesis of oxazolomycin A.

OL paper