Teurilene through epoxide ring opening

Tomas Martin and co-workers from the Universidad de La Laguna in Spain have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of teurilene through an epoxide ring opening cascade.

ACIE paper

Heronapyrrole C synthesis

Christian Stark and colleague at the Universitat Hamburg have reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of heronapyrrole C.

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

2 routes for elatenyne and is DFT going to be a standard for natural product structure assignment?

Deukjoon Kim (Seoul National University) and Jonathon Burton (University of Oxford) and co-workers have reported in JACS on a synthesis of elatenyne.

JACS paper

IKD-8344 synthesis

Yikang Wu and co-worker from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry have reported in ACIE on a synthesis of a natural product containing tetrahydrofurans, IKD-8344.

ACIE paper

Access to bis-THF rings

Hiromichi Fujioka and co-workers at Osaka University have reported in Organic Letters on a method to synthesize bis-tetrahydrofurans from a diol.

OL paper

Cytotoxic acetogenins

Xiang Li and co-workers from Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine have isolated some bistetrahydrofurans.

JNP paper

Pestalotheols

Karsten Krohn and co-workers at the University of Paderborn have reported in European JOC on the isolation of some biologically active tetrahydrofurans.

European JOC paper

Orthodiffenes A-D

Biswanath Das and co-workers at IICT have published in Tetrahedron Letters on the isolation of orthodiffenes A-D. Orthodiffene A had an IC50 value of 3.66 micrograms/mL against HL-60 cell lines.

 

TL paper

Osmium Catalyzed Oxidative Cyclization

Timothy Donohoe and co-workers at the University of Oxford have published in Synlett on an osmium catalyzed oxidative cyclization of a vinyl silane tethered with an alcohol to form substituted tetrahydrofurans.

Synlett paper