Spirooliganone A (Morita), Microansamycin H (Sittihan), Gymnothelignan N (Lee), 3(11)-Epoxyhypoestenone (Wang/Chen) Ophiofuranone A (3) was isolated from the endolichenic fungus Ophiospaerella korrae. Rainer Schobert of the University Bayreuth prepared the…
Spiroapplanatumine O (3) was isolated from Ganoderma applantum, a wood-decaying fungus that is widely used in traditional medicinal chemistry. Ullrich Jahn of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of…
John P. Price of 3-Chloro-1H-pyrazole Wolfe of the University of Michigan constructed the cyclobutene 3 by coupling the enol triflate 1 with diethyl malonate 2 (Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 8208.…
Benjamin Darses of the Université Grenoble-Alpes and Marie Sircoglou and Philippe Dauban of the Université Paris-Saclay effected the enantioselective aziridination of the terminal alkene 1 with 2, leading to 3…
Masato Matsugi of Meijo University prepared the carbamoyl azide 2 by reaction of the hydroxamic acid 1 with diphenyl phosphorazidate (Tetrahedron Lett. PMID:32261617 2022, 95, 153727. DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2022.153727). Yan Zhao…
α-Tocopherol Pinhong Chen and Guosheng Liu of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry developed a protocol for the enantioselective conversion of a terminal alkene 1 to the secondary benzoate 2…
Hongjian Lu of Nanjing University used an Ir catalyst to mediate the regioselective ortho amination of the benzamide 1, leading to the protected anthranilamide 2 (J. Org. 574007-66-2 structure Chem.…
Oleg V. Larionov of the University of Texas at San Antonio devised a protocol for the decarboxylative coupling of an acid 1 with an arenesulfinate 2 to give the sulfoxide…
Carbocyclic rings, unlike saturated heterocyclic rings, are not susceptible to the hepatic activation that is the basis of much drug toxicity. To pave the way for pharmaceutical discovery based on…
Christopher Uyeda of Purdue University achieved high enantioselectivity in the cyclopropanation of myrcene (1) with 2,2-dichloropropane (2) to give 3 (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 9441. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c01949). Qinglei…
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