A facile and efficient electrocyclization for the synthesis of polyfunctionalized benzene and naphthalene derivatives was reported. As a result of the ready availability of starting materials and simple operation, this t...
The scope and limitations of the synthesis of polynitroxides by nucleophilic substitution of electron-deficient fluorinated aromatic compounds are described. The method provides a facile route to the formation of polynit...
A practical synthesis of the glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) inhibitor bisarylmaleimide 1 has been accomplished employing Pictet-Spengler methodology to access the indole 7-position in preparing the benzodiazepine tric...
The first aminothiolation of 1,1-dibromoalkene is described using an inexpensive copper/N,N-dimethylethylenediamine catalyst. The method provides a powerful means of using easily available 1,1-dihaloalkenes as precursors...
The E/Z-selectivity in the formation of silylketene acetals derived from phenylacetate esters, mediated by LiHMDS, has been studied by in situ NMR techniques. The formation is seen to be highly E-selective with use of th...
A copper-catalyzed intramolecular N-arylation of a quinazolinone nucleus that furnished the central benzodiazepine core unit has been demonstrated to accomplish an efficient convergent total synthesis of (-)-circumdatins...
Synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides are purified with use of a catching by polymerization, washing, and releasing approach. The method does not require any chromatography, and purification is achieved by simple operations su...
An enantioselective formal synthesis of (-)-englerin A (1) is reported. Key to the strategy is a Rh-catalyzed [4 + 3] cycloaddition reaction between furan 10 and diazo ester 11 that, following an intramolecular aldol con...
Using a combination of asymmetric vinylogous Mukaiyama aldol and Stifle cross-coupling reactions, an advanced polyene fragment of the chivosazoles was prepared in a highly stereocontrolled manner. This key C1-C13 pentaen...