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An intramolecular Claisen reaction of a 1,6-diester to yield beta-ketoesters.

Isonitramine synthesis

Posted by naturalproductman on January 17, 2012

Hyeung-geun Park and co-workers at Seoul National University have reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of isonitramine.

isonitramine

OL paper

Posted in Alkaloids, Asymmetric, Dieckmann condensation, Methodology, Named Reactions, Total Synthesis | Leave a Comment »

Stemonamide Synthesis

Posted by naturalproductman on December 7, 2010

Fu-Min Zhang and co-workers at Lanzhou University have published in Chem Comm on a synthesis of stemonamide where a Schmidt reaction was used to access the 5,7-A,B-ring system.

stemonamide

Chem Comm paper

Posted in Aldol, Alkaloids, Dieckmann condensation, Methodology, Named Reactions, Schmidt, Spirocyclic centers, Titanium, Transition Metal | Leave a Comment »

Synthesis of Streptolydigin

Posted by naturalproductman on September 29, 2010

Sergey Kozmin and co-worker from the University of Chicago have published in JACS on the total synthesis of streptolydigin.

streptolydigin

JACS paper

Posted in Antibiotics, Cascade Reactions, Dieckmann condensation, Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons olefination, Methodology, Named Reactions, Polyenes, Spirocycles, Spiroketals | Leave a Comment »

Lactonamycin Synthesis

Posted by naturalproductman on September 20, 2010

Kuniaki Tatsuta and co-workers from Waseda University have published in Tetrahedron Letters on the total synthesis of lactonamycin.

lactonamycin

TL Paper

Posted in Antibiotics, Cancer, Cascade Reactions, Dieckmann condensation, Methodology, Michael, Named Reactions, Polyketides | Leave a Comment »