19-Hydroxysarmentogenin synthesis

Masayuki Inoue and co-workers from University of Tokyo have reported in ACIE on a synthesis of 19-hydroxysarmentogenin.

ACIE paper

C-H amination of C12-position

Shuji Yamashita and co-workers from Tohoku University have reported in Tetrahedron Letters on a C-H amination of the C12-position of steroids.

Tetrahedron Letters paper

Andrastin C synthesis

Masahiro Toyota and co-workers from Tohoku University have reported in JOC on the synthesis of andrastin C.

JOC paper

A rearranged steroids from a mushroom

Hirokazu Kawagishi and co-workers from Shizuoka University have reported in ACIE on the isolation of strophasterols A-D.

ACIE paper

Desmosterol needed for HCV

Priscilla Yang and co-workers from Harvard have reported in JACS on the identification of desmosterol needed for heptatitis C virus protein expression and viral genomic RNA.  I wonder why JACS has a green text background now in the articles instead of blue…

JACS paper

Viridin progress

Peter Jacobi and colleague from Dartmouth University have reported in Tetrahedron Letters on their approach towards viridin.

TL paper

Ceposides

Virginia Lanzotti and co-workers from Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II in Italy have reported in Phytochemistry on the isolation of antifungal saponins from white onions.

Phytochemistry paper

Taccalonolide AJ

Susan Mooberry and co-workers at UT Health Science Center in San Antonio have reported in JACS on the mode of action of taccalonolides.

JACS paper

In vivo anti-malarial activities of physalins

Milena Soares and co-workers from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Salvador have reported in the Journal of Natural Products on some anti-malarial activities of physalins comparing the activities of a 1,2-diol vs. an epoxide.

JNP paper

Estrone analog for HH signaling

Jeffrey Winkler and co-workers from the University of Pennsylvania have reported in Organic Letters on an F-ring analog of estrone, which acted as a cyclopamine analog.

OL paper