Colletoic acid synthesis

Masahisa Nakada and co-worker from Waseda University have reported in Org Lett on a synthesis of colletoic acid.

OL paper

Mycosporulone synthesis

Michael Jung and colleague at UCLA have reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of mycosporulone.

OL paper

Abiestetranes A and B

Wei-Dong Zhang and co-workers from have reported in Tetrahedron on the isolation of some spirocyclic tetraterpenes, abiestetranes A and B.

Tetrahedron paper

Chipericumins A–D

Jun’ichi Kobayashi and co-workers from Hokkaido University have reported in the Journal of Natural Products on the isolation of some acylphloroglucinols.

JNP paper

Acortatarins syntheses

Gangarajula Sudhakar and co-workers at IICT have reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of acortatarins.

OL paper

Spironaamidine

Sachiko Tsukamoto and co-workers from Kumamoto University have reported in Tetrahedron Letters on the isolation of an alkaloid, spironaamidine.

 

TL 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

Furans to Spiroketals via Singlet Oxygen

Georgios Vassilikogiannakis and co-workers from the University of Crete report on the light induced spirocyclization reaction of a furan.

OBC paper

Synthesis of Streptolydigin

Sergey Kozmin and co-worker from the University of Chicago have published in JACS on the total synthesis of streptolydigin.

JACS paper

Anti-Malarial Spiroindolones

A group in Novartis led by Thierry Diagana and a group in  Scripps led by Elizabeth Winzeler had a joint collaboration and  have reported in Science on some spiroindolone compounds that had anti-malarial activity.

Science paper