The Baran Synthesis of Cyclopamine
Chemexpress Cyclopamine (4), a teratogenic alkaloid isolated from the California corn lily Veratrum californicum, has been shown to disrupt the hedgehog signalling pathway. Phil S. Baran of Scripps/La Jolla envisioned a…
The Fan Synthesis of Trachinol
Trachinol (3), isolated fifty years ago from Sideritis canariensis Ait., a shrub of the Canary Islands, has an intriguing pentacyclic structure. Chun-An Fan of Lanzhou University devised an elegant preparation…
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By C MunozPinedoReovirus induces ER anxiety JS Carew et alsubstantial accrual of ubiquitinconjugated proteins and induced ER stressmediated apoptosis in each in vitro and in vivo models of pancreatic cancer.146…
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12). The presence of a higher amount of cAMP in the subcortical compartment appears to be essential for PKAmediated regulation of CFTR activity as remedy with latrunculin B was sufficient…
Organocatalyzed C-C Ring Construction: The Takao Synthesis of Puraquinonic Acid
Xiaoxia Ye of Wenzhou Medical University and Jun Jiang of Wenzhou University used the barium salt of proline to direct the aldol reaction of the prochiral cyclobutanone 1 with the…
Functional Group Interconversion: The Salom-Roig Synthesis of α-Conhydrine
Kwihwan Park, Tsuyoshi Yamada, and Hironao Sajiki of Gifu Pharmaceutical University devised conditions for the exchange of the allylic alcohol 1 with D2O, to give the trideuterated allylic alcohol 2…
C-H Functionalization: The Gui Synthesis of Phomarol
Yiyun Chen of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry used the benziodoxole reagents 2 and 3 to convert the activated oxime 1 to the alkyne 4 (Org. Lett. 2022, 24,…
Enantioselective Construction of Aldol Products: Part Two of Two
Acyclic stereoarrays are important both in themselves and as precursors to enantiomerically-defined ring systems. Although the aldol condensation has for many years been a workhorse for acyclic stereoselection, there are…
C-C Bond Construction: The Li/She Synthesis of Pharbilinic Acid
Burkhard König of University Regensburg observed significant diastereoselectivity in the conversion of the ketone 1 to the aldehyde 2 (Angew. Chem. Int. PMID:30125989 Ed. 2022, 61, e202211578. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202211578). John…
Organocatalyzed C-C Ring Construction: The Ikeuchi/Tanino Synthesis of Coriamytrin
Rong-Jie Chein of the Academia Sinica, Taipei used the known (S)-(thiolan-2-yl) diphenylmethanol benzyl ether to catalyze the Johnson-Corey-Chaykovsky cyclopropanation of the enone 1 with the allylic bromide 2 to give…