Transition metal catalysis controlled by hydrogen bonding in the second coordination sphere

JNH Reek, B de Bruin, S Pullen, TJ Mooibroek… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Transition metal catalysis is of utmost importance for the development of sustainable
processes in academia and industry. The activity and selectivity of metal complexes are …

Stereoselective synthesis and applications of spirocyclic oxindoles

AJ Boddy, JA Bull - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of novel synthetic strategies to form new chemical entities in a
stereoselective manner is an ongoing significant objective in organic and medicinal …

Asymmetric catalysis mediated by synthetic peptides, version 2.0: expansion of scope and mechanisms

AJ Metrano, AJ Chinn, CR Shugrue, EA Stone… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Low molecular weight synthetic peptides have been demonstrated to be effective catalysts
for an increasingly wide array of asymmetric transformations. In many cases, these peptide …

Marine natural products

JW Blunt, BR Copp, RA Keyzers, MHG Munro… - Natural product …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2015. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2016, 33, 382–431 This review covers the
literature published in 2015 for marine natural products (MNPs), with 1220 citations (792 for …

Marine natural products

JW Blunt, BR Copp, RA Keyzers, MHG Munro… - Natural Product …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2014. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2015, 32, 116–211 This review covers the
literature published in 2014 for marine natural products (MNPs), with 1116 citations (753 for …

Mitragynine/corynantheidine pseudoindoxyls as opioid analgesics with mu agonism and delta antagonism, which do not recruit β-arrestin-2

A Váradi, GF Marrone, TC Palmer… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Natural products found in Mitragyna speciosa, commonly known as kratom, represent
diverse scaffolds (indole, indolenine, and spiro pseudoindoxyl) with opioid activity, providing …

The chemistry of heterocycles in the 21st century

VN Charushin, EV Verbitskiy, ON Chupakhin… - Uspekhi Khimii, 2024 - mathnet.ru
The chemistry of heterocyclic compounds has traditionally been and remains a bright area of
chemical science in Russia. This is due to the fact that many heterocycles find the widest …

Rh (III)-catalyzed [3+ 2] annulation/pinacol rearrangement reaction of enaminones with iodonium ylides: direct synthesis of 2-spirocyclo-pyrrol-3-ones

M Zhang, L Chen, H Sun, Z Liu, SJ Yan, F Yu - Organic Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
A novel Rh (III)-catalyzed cascade alkenyl C–H activation/[3+ 2] annulation/pinacol
rearrangement reaction of enaminones with iodonium ylides has been developed. This …

Applications of nonenzymatic catalysts to the alteration of natural products

CR Shugrue, SJ Miller - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The application of small molecules as catalysts for the diversification of natural product
scaffolds is reviewed. Specifically, principles that relate to the selectivity challenges intrinsic …

Computational chemistry to the rescue: Modern toolboxes for the assignment of complex molecules by GIAO NMR calculations

N Grimblat, AM Sarotti - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The calculations of NMR properties of molecules using quantum chemical methods have
deeply impacted several branches of organic chemistry. They are particularly important in …