Recent trends in biocatalysis

D Yi, T Bayer, CPS Badenhorst, S Wu… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Biocatalysis has undergone revolutionary progress in the past century. Benefited by the
integration of multidisciplinary technologies, natural enzymatic reactions are constantly …

Recent advances in the enantioselective synthesis of chiral amines via transition metal-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation

A Cabré, X Verdaguer, A Riera - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Chiral amines are key structural motifs present in a wide variety of natural products, drugs,
and other biologically active compounds. During the past decade, significant advances have …

Plant defense against insect herbivores

J Fürstenberg-Hägg, M Zagrobelny, S Bak - International journal of …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Plants have been interacting with insects for several hundred million years, leading to
complex defense approaches against various insect feeding strategies. Some defenses are …

Asymmetric hydrogenation of heteroarenes and arenes

DS Wang, QA Chen, SM Lu, YG Zhou - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
The range of application of organic compounds is enormous due to that organic compounds
are structurally diverse. They either form the basis of or are important constituents of many …

Marine indole alkaloids: potential new drug leads for the control of depression and anxiety

AJ Kochanowska-Karamyan, MT Hamann - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
The marine environment has been explored in the search for new bioactive compounds over
the last 50 years, becoming a highly important and rich source of potent molecules and drug …

Brønsted-acid-catalyzed asymmetric multicomponent reactions for the facile synthesis of highly enantioenriched structurally diverse nitrogenous heterocycles

J Yu, F Shi, LZ Gong - Accounts of chemical research, 2011 - ACS Publications
Optically pure nitrogenous compounds, and especially nitrogen-containing heterocycles,
have drawn intense research attention because of their frequent isolation as natural …

Highly enantioselective cross-electrophile aryl-alkenylation of unactivated alkenes

ZX Tian, JB Qiao, GL Xu, X Pang, L Qi… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Enantioselective cross-electrophile reactions remain a challenging subject in metal
catalysis, and with respect to data, studies have mainly focused on stereoconvergent …

Alkaloids and isoprenoids modification by copper (I)-catalyzed Huisgen 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition (click chemistry): toward new functions and molecular architectures

K Kacprzak, I Skiera, M Piasecka, Z Paryzek - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Despite enormous progress in the field of the synthetic chemistry involving, for example,
catalytic and combinatorial synthesis of a large libraries of compounds, multicomponent …

Anti-diabetic potential of plant alkaloids: Revisiting current findings and future perspectives

H Rasouli, R Yarani, F Pociot… - Pharmacological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic metabolic disease which causes millions of death all
over the world each year, and its incidence is on increase. The most prevalent form, type 2 …

Phosphine‐catalyzed enantioselective dearomative [3+ 2]‐cycloaddition of 3‐nitroindoles and 2‐nitrobenzofurans

H Wang, J Zhang, Y Tu, J Zhang - Angewandte Chemie, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past years, the metal‐catalyzed dearomative cycloaddition of 3‐nitroindoles and 2‐
nitrobenzofurans have emerged as a powerful protocol to construct chiral fused heterocyclic …