We report the regioselective carbonylation of 2, 2-disubstituted epoxides to β, β-disubstituted
β-lactones. Mechanistic studies revealed epoxide ring-opening as the turnover limiting step …

Abstract Herein, Bi (OTf) 3‐catalyzed Friedel‐Crafts‐type annulation of sulfonyl o‐
hydroxyacetophenones with benzofused cycloethers is described. This single‐step strategy …

Upon irradiation at λ= 350 nm, cyclohept-2-enone undergoes an isomerization to the
strained (E)-isomer. The process was studied by XMS-CASPT2 calculations and found to …

Hypocrellins and hypomycins are two subclasses of fungal perylenequinones with unique
structural, biological, and photochemical properties. With the growing interest in these …

A Pd‐catalyzed cascade cyclization for the construction of fused dihydrocyclohepta [de]
naphthalene skeletons was developed. The skeleton was assembled from 3‐iodo‐4H …

The application of the Nicholas reaction chemistry of 2, 7-dioxygenated naphthalenes in the
synthesis of cyclohepta [de] napthalenes and in the synthesis of (±)-microstegiol (1) is …

The synthesis of the alleged natural product pochonin J is presented. Key steps of this
convergent synthesis include a chemoselective Wacker oxidation, and an Evans' anti …

A Pd (II)‐catalyzed formal [5+ 2] coupling‐cyclization of 2‐arylbenzaldehydes with allylic
alcohols has been developed. The method provides an efficient approach to access diaryl …

The structure of a reported natural product isolate has been revised from (S)-2, 2′-
dimethoxy-[1, 1′-binaphthalene]-5, 5′, 6, 6′-tetraol to a known tetrabrominated diphenyl …

A new family of extended π‐conjugated dihydrobenzopyrazoloquinoline (DBPQ) and
dihydroindenopyrazolopyridine (DIPP) molecules were synthesized, and their photophysical …