Design principles of the use of alkynes in radical cascades

C Hu, J Mena, IV Alabugin - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
One of the simplest organic functional groups, the alkyne, offers a broad canvas for the
design of cascade transformations in which up to three new bonds can be added to each of …

Metal-hydride hydrogen atom transfer (MHAT) reactions in natural product synthesis

J Wu, Z Ma - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The metal-hydride hydrogen atom transfer (MHAT) reaction plays an important role in the
field of natural product synthesis. MHAT, as a powerful method, has been employed by …

Marine natural products

AR Carroll, BR Copp, RA Davis, RA Keyzers… - Natural product …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: January to December 2021 This review covers the literature published in 2021 for
marine natural products (MNPs), with 736 citations (724 for the period January to December …

Pyrazine and phenazine heterocycles: platforms for total synthesis and drug discovery

RW Huigens III, BR Brummel, S Tenneti, AT Garrison… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
There are numerous pyrazine and phenazine compounds that demonstrate biological
activities relevant to the treatment of disease. In this review, we discuss pyrazine and …

Asymmetric total synthesis of twin bufogargarizins A and B

LP Zhong, R Feng, JJ Wang, CC Li - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The first and asymmetric total synthesis of bufogargarizins A and B, two unusual and highly
oxygenated twin steroids with rearranged A/B rings, was achieved. The synthetically …

Selective Hydroxylation of C(sp3)−H Bonds in Steroids

H Abas, P Blencowe, JL Brookfield… - … –A European Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Steroids are highly prevalent structures in small‐molecule therapeutics, with the level of
oxidation being key to their biological activity and physicochemical properties. These C …

Metal-catalyzed C–H bond oxidation in the total synthesis of natural and unnatural products

VCS Santana, MCV Fernandes, I Cappuccelli… - …, 2022 - thieme-connect.com
C–H bond oxidation is a powerful means for oxygen incorporation in organic molecules. Its
use results in fast structural diversification and in a new way of thinking about retrosynthetic …

Asymmetric synthesis of arboduridine

R Yang, Z Zhou, H Jiang, TS Kam, K Chen… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The first asymmetric total synthesis of the monoterpenoid indole alkaloid arboduridine has
been accomplished. The tricyclic A/B/D ring system was constructed by an enantioselective …

Inhibition of OSBP blocks retrograde trafficking by inducing partial Golgi degradation

N He, L Depta, C Rossetti, L Caramelle… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Sterol-binding proteins are important regulators of lipid homeostasis and membrane
integrity; however, the discovery of selective modulators can be challenging due to structural …

Diastereoselective Ring Expansion of Cyclic Ketones Enabled by HAT-Initiated Radical Cascade

W Wang, S Feng, Y Wei, H Wang, Y Li - Organic Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Herein we disclose an iron-catalyzed method for stereoselective synthesis of
multisubstituted cyclic ketones containing a synthetically challenging quaternary carbon …