Metal-halogen exchange, diastereoselectively

Paul Knochel and co-workers at LMU Munchen have reported in ACIE on a halogen metal exchange, which occurs with good diastereoselectivity. Be careful t-BuLi is used!

ACIE paper

Sweriledugenin A

Ji-Jun Chen and co-workers at the Kunming Institute of Botany have reported in Org Lett on the isolation of sweriledugenin A.

OL paper

BINOL + SbCl5

EJ Corey and co-workers reported in JACS on an antimonate catalyzed cation pi-cyclization.

JACS paper

Hydroarylation asymmetrically

Nicolai Cramer and co-workers have reported in ACIE on a rhodium catalyzed enantioselective hydroarylation.

ACIE paper

JACS or Angewandte?

Which journal is better: JACS or ACIE?

I think many people have asked this question before.

ACIE has a higher impact factor than JACS.

Something I do like better about JACS than ACIE is that the supporting information is free to the public.

Indole alkaloids

Jieping Zhu and co-workers haver reported in JACS on the syntheses of some indole alkaloids.

 

 

JACS paper

Hydroboration – interesting

Paul Chirik and colleague from Princeton have reported in JACS on an interesting hydroboration.

JACS paper

Alpha-arylation/N-Alkylation

Daniel Seidel and co-workers at Rutgers have reported in Organic Letters on an alpha-arylation/N-alkylation reaction.

OL paper

Erythropoietin synthesis

Danishefsky and co-workers reported in Science on the synthesis of erythropoietin after 1000 steps. Just kidding.

Science paper

Anyone else notice?

Is it just me or does anyone else notice more total syntheses papers in ACIE than in JACS?