Mukaiyama aldol reaction: an effective asymmetric approach to access chiral natural products and their derivatives/analogues

A Mushtaq, AF Zahoor - RSC advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The Mukaiyama aldol reaction is generally a Lewis-acid catalyzed cross-aldol reaction
between an aldehyde or ketone and silyl enol ether. It was first described by Mukaiyama in …

Catalytic Asymmetric Spirocyclizing Diels–Alder Reactions of Enones: Stereoselective Total and Formal Syntheses of α-Chamigrene, β-Chamigrene, Laurencenone C …

S Ghosh, JE Erchinger, R Maji… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We disclose a general catalytic enantioselective Diels–Alder reaction of exo-enones with
dienes to give spirocyclanes. The obtained products feature highly congested quaternary …

Recent Progress in the Synthesis of Sesquiterpenoid Involving Spirocyclic Carbon Framework

H Hagiwara - Natural Product Communications, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Spirocarbocyclic natural products have been attracting considerable attention from synthetic
organic chemists. This review focused on total syntheses of sesquiterpenoids involving spiro …

Reductive transformations mediated by zinc dust in acetic acid

Y Li, WDZ Li - Tetrahedron, 2024 - Elsevier
Zinc dust in glacial acetic acid (Zn/HOAc) reagent system is an important traditional
reductive reagent in organic chemistry, which still plays a unique role in a wide range of …