Over the course of the past half century, the structural elucidation of unknown natural
products has undergone a tremendous revolution. Before World War II, a chemist would …

Covering: 2003. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2004, 21, 1 This review covers the
literature published in 2003 for marine natural products, with 619 citations (413 for the …

Small molecule natural products continue to provide an incomparable source of inspiration
for advances in organic chemistry and disease treatment. 1Ā6 Labdane-type diterpenes are …

Covering: up to the end of 2004 This review presents the structure, biological activity and,
where applicable, references to the syntheses of 154 spongian and rearranged spongian …

Abstract Im Laufe der vergangenen 50 Jahre hat hinsichtlich der Aufklärung der Strukturen
unbekannter Naturstoffe eine gewaltige Umwälzung stattgefunden. In der ersten Hälfte des …

In this review we cover the structures, occurrence, biological activities and synthesis of all
the spongianes and rearranged spongianes since their discovery in 1974. We have given …

Short syntheses of bioactive (+)-ferruginol in five or six synthetic steps starting from
commercially available (+)-dehydroabietylamine are described. The oxygenated function at …

Abstract A stereoselective synthesis of (+)‐norrisolide is presented. This natural product
belongs to a family of marine spongiane diterpenes the structure of which is characterized …

Tetrahydrofuro [2, 3-b] furan-2 (3H)-one derivatives bearing four stereogenic centers were
achieved via an asymmetric organocatalytic cascade process with excellent stereoselectivity …

The synthesis and direct comparison of the chemical reactivity of the two highly oxidized
bicyclic lactone fragments found in rearranged spongian diterpenes (8-substituted 6-acetoxy …