No that’s not BINAP

N. P. Dhammika Nanayakkara and co-workers from the University of Mississippi have reported in JNP on the isolation of some compounds that look like BINAP.

JNP paper

Angelone synthesis

Zhigang Weng and co-workers from Shenzhen University have reported in Tetrahedron on a synthesis of angelone.  The highlight is the cascade reaction forming the final product.

Tetrahedron paper

Oxygen transfer

Yoshihiko Yamamoto and co-workers from Nagoya University have reported in JACS on the formation of a furan from diynes.

JACS paper

Carboesterification of alkenes

Huanfeng Jiang and co-workers from South China University of Technology have reported in ACIE on a palladium catalyzed carboesterification of alkenes.

ACIE paper

Streptocarbazoles

Weiming Zhu and co-workers at the Ocean University of China have reported in Organic Letters on the isolation of streptocarbazoles A and B.

OL paper

Not a sigmatropic rearrangement

This one looks like a sigmatropic rearrangement but it’s not because it’s missing the sigma bond breaking part, and this reaction also reminds me of the Overman rearrangement.  Shigeo Katsumara and co-workers at Kwansei Gakuin University have reported in Organic Letters on a palladium catalyzed

OL paper

Rhizopodin synthesis

Dirk Menche and co-workers from Universität Heidelberg have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of rhizopodin.

ACIE paper

Abyssomicin synthesis

Radomir Saicic and colleague at the University of Belgrade in Serbia have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of atrop-abyssomicin.

ACIE paper

Selective macrocyclization

Christopher Boddy and co-workers at the University of Ottawa have reported in Organic Letters on the selective macrocyclization using DEBS TE.

OL paper

Psoromic acid inhibits RabGGTase

Yao-Wen Wu and co-workers at Max Planck have reported in JACS on the inhibition of RabGGTase using psoromic acid.

JACS paper