Towards plumarellide

Gerald Pattenden and co-workers from the University of Nottingham in the UK have reported in Tetrahedron on a [4+2] approach to plumarellide.

Tetrahedron paper

Oxepanes via Ferrier

Srinivasan Chandrasekaran and co-workers at the Indian Institute of Science have reported in Tetrahedron on a Ferrier rearrangement to form oxepanes.

 

Tetrahedron paper

Organocatalytic epoxidation

Philip Bulman Page and co-workers at the University of East Anglia have reported in Tetrahedron on an iminium catalyzed epoxidation.

Tetrahedron paper

Aspeverin synthesis

Adam Levinson at Sloan Kettering has reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of aspeverin. Interestingly, Danishefsky was acknowledged for the mentorship but not included in the authors list. I wonder if this is a new kind of way to publish.

OL paper

ZMapp vs. ebola

Gary Kopinger and co-workers from the University of Manitoba have reported in Nature on ZMapp’s reversion of the ebola virus.
Nature paper

Scandium-catalyzed hydroarylation

Zhaomin Hou and co-workers from RIKEN have reported in JACS on an enantioselective hydroarylation using a scandium complex.

JACS paper

Steviol, hetidine, isoatisine syntheses

Phil Baran and co-workers have reported in JACS on the syntheses of steviol, hetidine, and isoatisine.

JACS paper

Basiliolide B synthesis

Chi-Sing Lee and co-workers at Shen Zhen University have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of basioli

ACIE paper

Myceliothermophins C, D, and E

Nicolaou and co-workers have reported in ACIE on the syntheses of myceliothermophins C, D, and E.

ACIE paper

Ring contraction cascade

Kavirayani R. Prasad and colleague at Indian Institute of Science have reported in ACIE on a ring contraction-ring expansion cascade reaction.

ACIE paper