A method for the optical resolution of carboxylic acids is described. Condensation of racemic carboxylic adds with chiral terminal propargyl alcohols gave separable diastereomeric esters. Chromatographic separation follo...
Aerobic oxidation of thiols is efficiently catalyzed by diaryl tellurides such as bis(4-nnethoxyphenyl) telluride under photosensitized conditions to give the corresponding disulfides in good to excellent yields. In this...
ECD and NMR experiments show that the complexation of propylene oxide (PrO) within the cavity of an enantiopure water-soluble cryptophane 1 in NaOH solution is enantioselective and that the (R)-PrO@PP-1 diastereomer is m...
5-Hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) is a newly discovered DNA base modification in mammalian genomic DNA that is proposed to be a major epigenetic mark. We report here the syntheses of two new versions of phosphoramidites II...
A series of S-hydrogen phosphorothioates have been converted to the corresponding S-trifluoromethyl derivatives upon reaction with the electrophilic trifluoromethylation reagent 1 (trifluoromethyl 1,3-dihydro-3,3-dimethy...
PSI-352938 is a novel 2'-deoxy-2'-alpha-fluoro-2'-beta-C-methyl 3',5'-cyclic phosphate nucleotide prodrug currently under investigation for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. PSI-352938 demonstrated supe...
A computational study of the mechanism of the intramolecular carboalkoxylation of alkynes reported by Toste et al. allows the characterization of the chirality transfer process that makes this reaction enantioselective. ...
Organocatalytic conjugate addition of malononitrile to conformationally restricted dienones has been studied. A series of chiral primary and tertiary amine catalysts were screened. A piperidine-based thiourea-tertiary am...
A highly trans and regioselective anionic formal [3 + 2] cycloaddition was achieved with allylic sulfones having an MBH acrylamide backbone under phase transfer organocatalytic conditions giving rise to the formation of ...
Condensation of carbon disulfide with thiols in the presence of K2CO3 generates carbonotrithioate salts in situ, which undergo coupling with 2-iodoanilines and subsequent intramolecular condensation and elimination under...
An efficient, highly diastereoselective method for the preparation of protected cis-2-aminocyclopropanols from N-tert-butanesulfinyl ketimines and various aryl acylsilanes is described. A tandem process for carbon-carbon...
Azomethine ylide formed from glycine methyl ester and cinnamaldehyde adds to N-phenylmaleimide to form pyrrolidine derivative, further treatment of which with cinnamaldehyde and N-phenylmaleimide affords the second [2 + ...
Cyclizations of selenoester-derived 3-indolylacyl radicals, involving the homolytic acylation of pyridines or the addition to double bonds included in tetrahydropyridine rings, have been used to synthesize indole [cd]-fu...
A nucleotide is composed of a nucleobase, a five-carbon sugar, and phosphate groups. Recognition of these three sites can provide useful information for the development of selective fluorescent receptors for a specific n...