Salvileucalin C synthesis

Hanfeng Ding and co-workers from Zhejiang University have reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of salvileucalin C. I thought of Sarah Reisman’s work but she of course made salvileucalin B. By the way, I noticed that Sarah Reisman was promoted directly from assistant prof to prof at Caltech so kudos to her.

OL paper

3 rings from 1

Jiong Yang and co-workers from Texas A&M have reported in JOC on a transannular Michael reaction.

JOC paper

Alkaloid syntheses

Xiaoguang Lei and co-workers at Tianjin University have reported in ACIEE on the synthesis of Fawcettimine, Fawcettidine, and 8-Deoxyserratinine.

ACIEE paper

Transannular Michael

Gerald Pattenden and colleague at the University of Nottingham have reported in Tetrahedron on the synthesis of ineleganolide via a Michael reaction.

Tetrahedron paper