Tryptophan labeling

Michael Taylor and co-workers from the University of Wyoming reported in JACS on a method to label tryptophan residues using an N-carbamoyl pyridinium salt and light.

JACS paper

Zephycarinatines syntheses

Hiroaki Ohno and co-workers at Kyoto University have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of zephycarinatines.

 

ACIE paper

Gold catalyzed photoredox chemistry

Stephen Hashmi and co-workers have reported in ACIE on the use of a gold dimer catalyst with a diphenylphosphinomethane ligand to effect a difluoroalkylation reaction.

ACIE paper

JOC papers of interest 11/24/2015

James White and co-workers reported on the synthesis of Huperzine A.

Christopher Marvin and co-workers from Hendrix College reported in JOC on the synthesis of tetrabenazine through a photoredox reaction to afford the piperidone moiety.

Young-Ger Suh and co-workers from Seoul National University reported on the synthesis of galiellalactone.

Ronaldo Pilli and co-workers from  Universidad Estadualde Campinas have reported on the synthesis of cryptomoscatone E3.

Scott Denmark and colleague reported on an asymmetrice 2,3-Wittig rearrangement.

Hydroamidation of olefins

Robert Knowles and co-workers at Princeton have reported in JACS on a hydroamidation of olefins using an iridium catalyst.

JACS paper

Triazoline + light

Miguel Garcia-Garibay and co-workers at UCLA have reported in Organic Letters on a denitrogenation reaction of a triazoline using light to make an aziridine.

OL paper

Photoredox cross-coupling

Larry Overman and co-workers reported in JACS on a photoredox coupling between tertiary alcohols and electron deficient olefins.

JACS paper

Blue-LED induced cascade

Zhiyong Jiang and co-workers from Henan University have reported in ACIE on a radical cascade cyclization using blue light emitted diodes.

ACIE paper

C-C bond cleavage of alpha-aryl acetals

Thomas Lectka and co-workers from Johns Hopkins University have reported in Chemical Science on an interesting C-C bond cleavage process.

Chemical Science paper

Combining 2 concepts from sophmore organic chemistry (Sn2 and radical initiation)d

The Finkesltein reaction is a straightforward Sn2 reaction – however, you don’t normally think of displacing an aromatic halide as an Sn2 reaction. Chao-Jun Li and co-workers at McGill University reported on the aromatic Finkelstein reaction using light.

 

 

JACS paper