Akaol A synthesis

Alakesh Bisai and co-workers reported in Organic Letters on a Nazarov approach to akaol A.

 

OL paper

Mechanistic study of the asymmetric Nazarov cyclization

Kendall Houk and co-workers reported in JACS on a mechanistic investigation on a reaction discovered by Tius: the asymmetric Nazarov cyclization catalyzed by a thiourea-primary amine catalyst.

JACS paper

Nazarov-semipinacol cascade

Take a cyclobutanol bearing dienone and see what kind of Nazarov reaction occurs…Yong-Qiang Tu and co-workers at Lanzhou University reported in JACS on this interesting asymmetric transformation.

JACS paper

Nazarov in the presence of KMnO4

From Frederick G. West’s lab at the University of Alberta: potassium permanganate was present in a Nazarov reaction and an interesting C-C bond cleavage reaction occured.

ACIE paper

Rocaglamide synthesis

Marcus Tius and colleague have reported in ACIE on the asymmetric synthesis of rocaglamide.

ACIE paper

Aza-Nazarov

G Sekar and co-workers from IIT Madras have reported in Chem Comm on an aza-Nazarov cyclization.

Chem Comm paper

Interrupted Nazarov

FG West and co-workers from the University of Alberta have reported in an Nazarov cyclization study combining DFT and experiment to explain the diastereoselectivity.

 

 

JACS paper

Tetrapetalone A-Me glycon synthesis

Alison Frontier and co-workers at Rochester University and Hoveyda Boston College have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of tetrapetalone A-Me glycon.

 

ACIE paper

Gracilamine synthesis

Shuanhu Gao and co-workers at East China Normal University have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of gracilamine.

ACIE paper

 

Imino-Nazarov reaction

Richard Hsung and co-workers published in Org Lett on an imino Nazarov reaction catalyzed by gold and silver.

OL paper