This report presents the applications of enantioselective epoxidation of prochiral allylic
alcohols, so called 'Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation', which is frequently referred as …

Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation involves the reaction of an alkene with osmium
tetroxide in the presence of a chiral quinine ligand to form an optically active vicinal diol …

Eleven 6-[ω-arylalkenyl]-5, 6-dihydro-α-pyrones, cryptomoscatones D2, E1, E2, E3 and F1
and cryptopyranmoscatones A1, A2, A3, B1, B2 and B4, in addition to goniothalamin and …

1. Introduction....................................................................... 2930 2. Synthetic methodologies for
dihydropyranones......................................... 2930 2.1. Lactonization of substituted d-hydroxy …

The Kulinkovich cyclopropanation reaction provides a flexible and convenient method for
the synthesis of cyclopropanols. Together with the diverse chemistry of the cyclopropanol …

A successful kinetic resolution of a racemic mixture of δ-hydroxy esters 1 was obtained via
lipase-catalyzed transesterification (E value up to 360). The combination of the enzymatic …

Antimalarial bioassay-guided fractionation of an EtOH extract of the root wood of
Cryptocarya rigidifolia (Lauraceae) led to the isolation of the five new 5, 6-dihydro-α-pyrones …

This text presents the latest advances in supercritical fluid technology, biocatalysis,
bioprocess engineering, and crop breeding. It offers an in-depth review of the most recent …

A high-throughput cell-based reporter assay designed to identify small-molecule stabilizers
of the tumor suppressor Pdcd4 was used to screen extracts in the NCI Natural Products …

Brevipolides K–O (1–5), five new cytotoxic 6-(6′-cinnamoyloxy-2′, 5′-epoxy-1′-
hydroxyheptyl)-5, 6-dihydro-2 H-pyran-2-ones (IC50 values against six cancer cell lines, 1.7 …