Natural Products in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry – our latest selection

Graphical abstract: Front coverOrganic & Biomolecular Chemistry, our sister journal, publishes many articles that cover a variety of natural product chemistry.

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Hand-picked for you from the latest issues are:

Biomimetic total synthesis of (±)-yezo’otogirin A
Hiu C. Lam, Kevin K. W. Kuan and Jonathan H. George
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014,12, 2519-2522
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB00186A, Communication

Complexity generation by chemical synthesis: a five-step synthesis of (−)-chaetominine from L-tryptophan and its biosynthetic implications
Chu-Pei Xu, Shi-Peng Luo, Ai-E Wang and Pei-Qiang Huang
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014,12, 2859-2863
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB00314D, Communication

A unified strategy for the synthesis of the C1–C14 fragment of marinolic acids, mupirocins, pseudomonic acids and thiomarinols: total synthesis of pseudomonic acid methyl monate C
Y. Sridhar and P. Srihari
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014,12, 2950-2959
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB00025K, Paper

Total synthesis of lycorine-type alkaloids by cyclopropyl ring-opening rearrangement
Dandan Liu, Long Ai, Fan Li, Annan Zhao, Jingbo Chen, Hongbin Zhang and Jianping Liu
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014,12, 3191-3200
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB00126E, Paper

The nature of persistent conformational chirality, racemization mechanisms, and predictions in diarylether heptanoid cyclophane natural products
Ommidala Pattawong, M. Quamar Salih, Nicholas T. Rosson, Christopher M. Beaudry and Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014,12, 3303-3309
DOI: 10.1039/C3OB42550A, Paper

Rare Streptomyces sp. polyketides as modulators of K-Ras localisation
Angela A. Salim, Xue Xiao, Kwang-Jin Cho, Andrew M. Piggott, Ernest Lacey, John F. Hancock and Robert J. Capon
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014,12, 4872-4878
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB00745J, Paper

A total synthesis of (+)-negamycin through isoxazolidine allylation
Roderick W. Bates, Rab’iah Nisha Khanizeman, Hajime Hirao, Yu Shan Tay and Patcharaporn Sae-Lao
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014,12, 4879-4884
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB00537F, Paper

Mechanistic studies for tri-targeted inhibition of enzymes involved in cholesterol biosynthesis by green tea polyphenols Hu Ge, Jinggong Liu, Wenxia Zhao, Yu Wang, Qingqing He, Ruibo Wu, Ding Li and Jun Xu
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014,12, 4941-4951
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB00589A, Paper

Iodine-catalyzed aromatization of tetrahydrocarbazoles and its utility in the synthesis of glycozoline and murrayafoline A: a combined experimental and computational investigation
Vivek Humne, Yuvraj Dangat, Kumar Vanka and Pradeep Lokhande
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014,12, 4832-4836
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB00635F, Communication

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