(−)-Aspidophylline A synthesis

Yu-Rong Yang and co-workers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of aspidophylline A.

 

 

ACIE paper

Haliclonin A synthesis

Pei-Qiang Huang and co-workers from Xiamen University have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of haliclonin A.

 

ACIE paper

Chromodorolide B synthesis

Larry Overman and co-workers reported in JACS on the synthesis of chromodorolide B.

JACS paper

Alstoscholarisine A synthesis

Yu-Rong Yang and co-workers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported in JACS on the synthesis of (−)-alstoscholarisine A.

 

JACS paper

α-Aminations via Nitrenoids

Takashi Ohshima and co-workers from Kyushu University reported in JACS on the use of hypervalent iodine to perform an N-H insertion

 

 

JACS paper

Trioxacarcins syntheses

KC Nicolaou and co-workers reported in JACS on the synthesis of trioxacarcins. The abstract figure looks interstellar.

 

JACS paper

 

 

Some benzyne chemistry

Michael Greaney and co-workers from the University of Manchester have reported in ACIE on an aryl Truce-Smiles rearrangement to synthesize biaryl amines.

ACIE paper

[2+2+2] towards rubriflordilactone B

Zhixiang Xie and co-workers from Lanzhou University have reported in Organic Letters on an approach towards rubriflordilactone B using Wilkinson’s catalyst.

OL paper

Prostaglandin E2 methyl ester synthesis

Minoru Isobe and co-workers from National Tsing Hua University have reported in JOC on a synthesis of PGE2 methyl ester using a very nice cascade cyclization.

 

JOC paper

Asymmetric copper catalyzed C-N coupling

Greg Fu and Jonas Peters and co-workers at Caltech have reported in Science on a copper catalyzed asymmetric C-N bond coupling reaction that required blue light.

 

Science paper