Alkene and alkyne metathesis, well-developed synthetic methods, are now often employed in natural product synthesis. The total syntheses outlined here are noteworthy for their creative application of these reactions. Buy7-Amino-4-bromoisoindolin-1-one…
Diimide (H-N=N-H) is an effective reagent for reducing alkenes. Yasushi Imada and Takeshi Naota of Osaka University have devised (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 14544. DOI: 10.1021/ja053976q)a flavin-catalyzed protocol…
N-heterocyclic salts are air-stable crystalline solids that can be stored with no special precautions and are the precursors of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes (NHCs), which are produced upon treatment with an appropriate…
Alkene and alkyne metathesis have, in a relatively short time, become important tools for organic synthesis. Carlos Saá of the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela has developed (J. Am. PMID:23927631…
One of the simplest ways to construct alkylated ternary centers is enantioselective catalytic hydrogenation. Xumu Zhang of Pennsylvania State University has devised (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 4933. 1803603-34-0…
Nitrogen heterocycles are the basis of many essential pharmaceuticals, and of many physiologically-active natural products. There is a continuing interest in the development of new methods for the construction of…
Two particularly useful conversions of alcohols were recently reported. PMID:23381601 Buy2,4,5-Trichloroquinoline Abdol Reza Hajipour of the University of Wisconsin has found (Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 4191.DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2006.04.036)that grinding an alcohol…
There are several strategies now available for the catalytic construction of isolated oxygenated and aminated stereogenic centers in high enantiomeric excess (2006 Jan 9). Processes for the catalytic enantioselective construction…
Thomas J. J. Müller of the Universität Heidelberg has reported (Chem. Methyltrioxorhenium(VII) structure 5-(Thiazol-5-yl)nicotinic acid web Commun. 2005, 2581.DOI: 10.1039/b502324f)a powerful method for the assembly of highly substituted furans, Pd-mediated…
Enantiomerically-pure carbocycles can be prepared either de novo, or by desymmetrization of prochiral rings. A classic illustration of the latter approach is the condensation of cyclohexanone (1) with p-nitrobenzaldehyde (2).…
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