Pallambins A and B syntheses

Erick Carreira and colleague have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of pallambin.

ACIE paper

Ni-catalyzed cyclopropanation

Peter Chen and co-workers from ETH Zurich have reported in ACIE on a nickel catalyzed cyclopropanation. Looks similar to a Corey-Chaykovsky cyclopropanation because of the formation of an ylide.

ACIE paper

Hydroamidocarbonylation

Matthias Keller and co-workers have reported in ACIE on a hydroamidocarbonylation of olefins.

ACIE paper

Cannizzaro cascade

Simon Woodward and co-workers have reported in ACIE on a Cannizzaro cascade reaction using tert-butyl lithium.

ACIE paper

4pi-Electrocyclic ring opening cascade

Kiyosei Takasu and co-workers from Kyoto University have reported in JACS on a ring expansion cross coupling cascade.

JACS paper

Oridamycin synthesis

Another solo performance from Danishefsky’s lab published by Adam Trotta.

OL paper

What kind of heterocycles are in drugs?

This is a good review by Jon Njardarson and co-workers in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry on the analysis of heterocycles in FDA approved drugs.

JMC paper

Penibruguieramine A synthesis

Sanghee Kim and co-workers from Seoul National University have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of penibruguieramine A.

ACIE paper

Hosieine A synthesis

Ran Hong and co-workers at SIOC have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of hosieine A. The pyridone moiety reminds of lyconadin.

ACIE paper

Englerin A synthesis

Shunichi Hashimoto and co-workers from Hokkaido University have reported in Chemistry a European Journal on their total synthesis of englerin A.

Chemistry – a European Journal paper